Noun: shippon
| Singular | shippon |
| Plural | shippons |
Sample Sentences
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He almost reached the timberline – but there the weather changed, a damp fog enveloped him, and he spent a couple of hours shivering all alone in a smelly shippon, waiting for the whirling mists to uncover the sun once more. [1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 51:]
Nouns inflected like shippon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English shipne, shepne, schüpene, from Old English sċypen, from Proto-Germanic *skupinī, from Proto-Germanic *skup- (whence shop). Cognate with German Schuppen (“shed”), and Bavarian Schupfn, Schupfa. See: Middle English Nouns '
shipne', Old English Nouns '
sċypen', German Nouns '
Schuppen'.
Verbs referencing "shippon"
German Nouns
Schuppen.