Noun: sheepflesh
Sample Sentences
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Everybody wore home-made clothing; and that wool might not become scarce, the use of sheepflesh, for food, was discouraged. [1860, Benson John Lossing, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Life of Washington:]
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Sheep and goat wines are directed to be prepared in the following' manner: Take ten catties (i catty — i \ lb.) of soaked rice, seven catties of goat or sheep flesh, fourteen onions, one Shan-tung cabbage, and a catty of almond kernels [...] [1877, Horatio C. Wood, Charles Rice, Frederick Albert Castle, New remedies: Volume 6:]
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SILENUS It's each man by and for himself. There is no govermnent. ODYSSEUS Is Demeter respected here? I mean, do they plant grain? What do they live on? SILENUS Curds and whey and sheepflesh, sir. [2001, Eurípides, Heather McHugh, David Konstan, Cyclops:]
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The sheep were a solid lump of woolly sheepflesh, swirling, and though Penny tried to separate them, they were like commuters jammed in a subway car, nothing could break them apart. [2007, Donald McCaig, Nop's Hope:]
Nouns inflected like sheepflesh
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From sheep + flesh. Compare Dutch schapenvlees (“mutton”), German Schaffleisch (“sheep meat, mutton”). See: Dutch Nouns '
schapenvlees', German Nouns '
Schaffleisch'.