Definitions for sheepdog

sheepdog sheep·dog

Spelling: [sheep-dawg, -dog]
IPA: /ˈʃipˌdɔg, -ˌdɒg/

Sheepdog is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in sheepdog (deeghops).

Definitions for sheepdog

noun

  1. a dog trained to herd and guard sheep.

Origin of sheepdog

First recorded in 1765-75; sheep + dog

Examples for sheepdog

Grossman has a name for the kind of person who sees the gun as protector in the opening thought experiment: sheepdog.

But Grossman would say that all I am doing is leaving the sheepdog burden for others, that I am choosing to live in denial.

My comment on this story was that the farmer had displayed an almost incredible ignorance of a sheepdog—and a shepherd.

To this class belong most of the useful dogs, such as the spaniel, the setter, the pointer and the sheepdog.

The mop-haired pup, Beast, is a type of Hungarian sheepdog and frequently posts pictures and insight into his family life.

Like all good lurchers, she is bred between the greyhound and sheepdog.

I came home about five or six o'clock and found the family at Treff Loyne laughing at old Tiger, the sheepdog.

At Rawak the phalanger and the sheepdog in a wild state were the only quadrupeds met with.

I have had, maybe, a dozen dogs in all, the best being the result of a pure cross between greyhound and sheepdog.

She works her way out like a sheepdog working his way out of a flock of sheep, or like a boat through pack-ice.

Word Value for sheepdog
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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