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sheepadoodle en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of sheepdog + poodle, after Labradoodle; compare doodle (“poodle crossbreed”).

Meanings

1. A dog that is a cross between an Old English Sheepdog and a poodle.
   • “What breed is he? Or she?” a woman […] asked me one morning. Her large black sheepdog mix circled around us. / “He,” I said. “Terrier mutt.” / “Don’t ever say that,” the woman scolded me. “Mutt is a horrible, insensitive, mean thing to call any dog.” Off she stalked with her sheepadoodle, or whatever his precise and proper designation was. 2009, Steven Winn, “The Lake, the Beach and the Bluff”, in Come Back, Como: Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 257:
   • Claire, our painfully cute sheepadoodle puppy was my constant companion. 2015, Eliot Peper, “Acknowledgments”, in Uncommon Stock: Exit Strategy (The Uncommon Series; part III), [North Charleston, S.C.]: [CreateSpace], →ISBN:
   • My sheepadoodle turns and runs again to the woods past the goat pen, barking. 2024, Sylvia Liu, chapter 1, in Near and Deer, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:

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