sheepdog

See also: sheep dog

English

Alternative forms

• sheep dog

Etymology

From sheep +‎ dog.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sheepdog (plural sheepdogs)

1. A breed of dog, used for herding sheep.
2. A breed of dog used for guarding sheep.
3. (slang, dated) A chaperon; an adult who accompanies other people in a supervisory role.
4. (US, slang, law enforcement) A police officer.

Synonyms

• shepherd dog

Derived terms

• Abruzzese Sheepdog
• Catalan Sheepdog
• Croatian Sheepdog
• Cumberland Sheepdog
• Dutch Sheepdog
• Gaucho Sheepdog
• Gaucho sheepdog
• Himalayan Sheepdog
• Icelandic Sheepdog
• Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog
• Maremma Sheepdog
• Old English Sheepdog
• Patagonian Sheepdog
• Polish Lowland Sheepdog
• Polish Tatra Sheepdog
• Portuguese Sheepdog
• Shetland Sheepdog
• Shetland sheepdog
• Shirak Sheepdog
• Vikhan Sheepdog
• Welsh Sheepdog

 

Translations

dog used for herding sheep

• Armenian: հովվաշուն (hy) (hovvašun)
• Avestan: 𐬞𐬀𐬯𐬎𐬱⸱ 𐬵𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀 (pasuš. ha^uruua)
• Azerbaijani: çoban iti, ovçu iti
• Basque: artzain txakur
• Chagatai: توبات (tûbât)
• Cornish: ki deves m
• Danish: fårehund c
• Dutch: herdershond (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝafhundo
• Faroese: seyðahundur m
• Finnish: lammaskoira (fi)
• French: chien de berger (fr) m
• Georgian: ნაგაზი (nagazi)
• German: Schäferhund (de) m, Schäferhündin (de) f, Hirtenhund (de) m, Hirtenhündin f
• Greek: τσοπανόσκυλο (el) n (tsopanóskylo)
• Hungarian: juhászkutya (hu)
• Icelandic: fjárhundur m
• Irish: madra caorach m
• Italian: cane da pastore m
• Japanese: 牧羊犬 (ja) (bokuyōken)
• Kazakh: төбет (töbet)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Scheperhund m

• Luxembourgish: Schéiferhond (lb) m
• Malay: anjing gembala, anjing herder
• Manx: coo keyrragh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fårehund m

  Nynorsk: fårehund m

• Polish: owczarek (pl) m
• Portuguese: cão-pastor m, ovelheiro m
• Romanian: câine ciobănesc (ro) m, câine de stână m
• Russian: овча́рка (ru) f (ovčárka)
• Scottish Gaelic: cù-chaorach m
• Slovene: ovčar (sl) m
• Spanish: perro pastor m
• Swedish: fårhund (sv) c
• Tajik: саги чӯпонӣ (sag-i čüponi)
• Turkish: çoban köpeği (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: چوبان كوپكی (çoban köpeği)

• Ukrainian: вівча́рка f (vivčárka)
• Vietnamese: chó chăn cừu
• Volapük: galedanadog, galedanahidog (male), galedanajidog (female)
• Welsh: ci defaid m

Verb

sheepdog (third-person singular simple present sheepdogs, present participle sheepdogging, simple past and past participle sheepdogged)

1. To chaperon or shepherd.
   • 1999, David Weber, Echoes of Honor, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:

     Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...

   • 2009, Carl M. Cannon, Lou Dubose, Jan Reid, Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Architect of George W. Bush's Remarkable Political Triumphs, PublicAffairs, →ISBN:

     On June 14, with Kennedy personally sheepdogging it, the No Child Left Behind Act passed the Senate ninety-one to eight.