Sheep vs Tot - What's the difference?

sheep | tot |

As nouns the difference between sheep and tot

is that sheep is a woolly ruminant of the genus ovis while tot is thunder.

(sheep)

A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis .

A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.

(chiefly, humorous)

* See also

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

* Abenaki: (l)

* * (wikipedia) * (Ovis)

(en noun)

A small child.

He learned to run when he was just a tot .

A measure of spirits, especially rum.

* 1897: Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa

Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.

* 1916: Siegfried Sassoon, The Working Party

And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.

(UK, dialect, dated) A foolish fellow.

(Halliwell)

Shortening of

To sum or total.

* tot up