Meaning of sheephood | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being a sheep.

uncountable

Examples

“Just then the woolly offender made her appearance, and Bill [Snyder] forgot his mishap and stooped to scratch her head. Tne animal, he said, was just budding from lambhood into sheephood, and her only fault was that she could not forget her bringing up.”

“A single question put to him is good for a prophecy or a speech. “Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?” Shepherd FARLEY abounds in it. Not content with collecting the Democratic sheep into the fold, he insists upon instructing them in all the duties of sheephood.”

“In the cruel system of sorting sheep from goats that America has evolved since World War II, admission to college is the critical passage into sheephood, and Harvard College is the gateway to the fleeciest sheephood of all.”

“A pamphlet tacked onto the residence's front door had a picture of Jesus and a flock of sheep and said in part, "Now if you are tired of wandering in the world and realize that you will only get lost in its unfulfilling cycles then we hope you will let us help you find your destination back to sheephood."”

“First there was the bad news about cloning, the genetic path to immortality. Dolly the clone has come up with arthritis in her prime sheephood.”

“In picture books this month, the superlative Morag Hood returns with Brenda Is a Sheep (Two Hoots), a suspense-filled account of a young sheep who isn’t like the rest, what with her pointy teeth, antipathy to grass and increasing desire to eat her companions. But the flock love Brenda’s unusual approach to sheephood; will their adoration change the predator’s mind?”

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