Crippled vs Lamb - What's the difference?
crippled | lamb |
Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
(cripple)
A young sheep.
The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food.
(figuratively) A person who is meek, docile and easily led.
A simple, unsophisticated person.
(finance, slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
Of a sheep, to give birth.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To assist (sheep) to give birth.
As an adjective crippled
is having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.As a verb crippled
is (cripple).As a proper noun lamb is
.crippled
English
Adjective
(head)- 1848' ''"A '''crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?"'' — Charlotte Bronte, ''Jane Eyre ,
Chapter 17.
- 1893' ''The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a '''crippled shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate.'' — Mark Twain, ''
Pudd'nhead Wilson.
Antonyms
* noncrippled * uncrippledVerb
(head)lamb
English
Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* lamb to the slaughter/like a lamb to the slaughter/come like a lamb to the slaughter * lamblike * lamb's lettuce * lamb's tongue * lambswoolVerb
(en verb)- The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.