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Sheep vs Sheepshit - What's the difference?

sheep | sheepshit |

As nouns the difference between sheep and sheepshit

is that sheep is a woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis while sheepshit is the excrement of a sheep.

sheep

English

Noun

(sheep)
  • A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis .
  • A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
  • (chiefly, humorous)

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * black sheep * sheepdog * sheepfold * sheepish * sheeple * sheepskin * shoop (chiefly-humorous back-formation)

    Descendants

    * Abenaki: (l)

    See also

    * * Aries * ewe * lamb * mutton * ovine * ram * teg * tup * wether

    External links

    * * (wikipedia) * (Ovis)

    References

    Anagrams

    * * 1000 English basic words ----

    sheepshit

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (vulgar) The excrement of a sheep.
  • * 1996 , Ursula K Le Guin, Worlds of exile and illusion
    • And I am a green walnut, and you a fish, and those mountains are made of roasted sheepshit ! Have it your way. Speak the truth and hear the truth.
  • * 2002 , Joseph O'Neill, Blood-Dark Track: A Family History
    • He led me into a field bespattered with sheepshit . 'Here we are,' he said. 'Here's the old German camp.'
  • * 2004 , Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Still Life with Crows
    • Whiskey over here, amigo. What's this you've been feeding us, Hoss, boiled sheepshit ?
  • * 2004 , Peter Temple, Identity Theory
    • A croft in the Welsh wilderness, wind never stops howling, natives slathered in sheepshit and woad, incomprehensible tongue, nasty secessionist tendencies.