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25-Aug-2006, 00:27
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First Language: English | |  Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
Yes...there is Mounty:
YOU
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26-Aug-2006, 11:28
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Current Location: India First Language: English Member Type: Academic | |  Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
It's ovine - like a sheep
Bovine - like a cow |
26-Aug-2006, 21:10
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Current Location: North Carolina First Language: English Member Type: English Teacher | | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
Oh, someone who blindly follows the leader, regardless of how stupid that leader is?
In America, we call those people Republicans. |
27-Aug-2006, 01:24
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Current Location: India First Language: English Member Type: Academic | | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
I've posted this one before, but somehow it just doesn't appear... Single word for sheep-like is OVINE |
27-Aug-2006, 17:18
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Current Location: Connecticut First Language: English Member Type: English Teacher | | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
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Originally Posted by mykwyner  Oh, someone who blindly follows the leader, regardless of how stupid that leader is?
In America, we call those people Republicans. |  |
18-Sep-2006, 10:27
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Current Location: Trivandrum First Language: Malayalam Member Type: Student or Learner | | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
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Originally Posted by Tdol 'Stooge', 'toady' or 'sidekick' are all in that area, but not exactly synonyms. 'Follower' can be used with that sense, but it doesn't have to have the negative connotation, which would normally be shown by saying 'just a follower'. I can't think of an exact match at the moment.  | How about 'Partisan'? |
18-Sep-2006, 11:01
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Current Location: England (South East) First Language: English Member Type: English Teacher | | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
The problem may be that you're looking for an equivalent to gregario - i.e. an adjective. Many people would call someone who was gregario 'a sheep' (not directly, as in 'You're a sheep', but indirectly, as in 'Don't you think you're being a bit of a sheep?)
Back to the original question: certainly not 'sheepish' - which means something else. There is the academic word 'ovine', but I've never seen it anywhere but a poem or a very dry text. I've never heard it, except in a jocular context among academics.
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18-Sep-2006, 14:47
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Current Location: Dorset, UK First Language: English Member Type: Student or Learner | | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
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Originally Posted by mounty It seems that there is no single English word for the Spanish gregario, which describes one who unquestioningly and unthinkingly follows the herd. Can anyone think of one ?
Note that the Spanish word is not the same as the English gregarious. | I would say that "conformist" is a suitable word although the neologism "sheeple" is used on a number of forums that I frequent and google returns 603,000 hits for that term, the very first of which being: Quote: |
Originally Posted by google Sheeplenet
Sheeple are people that follow blindly and never question their leaders. | |
19-Sep-2006, 04:46
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Current Location: Phnom Penh First Language: English Member Type: English Teacher | | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
I like 'sheeple'- I hadn't come across it.  |
19-Sep-2006, 15:54
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Current Location: England (South East) First Language: English Member Type: English Teacher | | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
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Originally Posted by Tdol I like 'sheeple'- I hadn't come across it. | Me too (and neither), although failing eye-sight made me misread it at first as 'sheepie', which isn't nearly as good.
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