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28-Sep-2006, 21:42
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| |  Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
you can use the adverb "sheepishly" to indicate that someone followed someone or something without thinking it through. |
28-Sep-2006, 22:22
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| | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
My father, who had a very extensive vocabulary, used to call us something that sounded like "ah-ma-dahms" when we blindly followed the crowd. I have been unable to find this word in any of the spellings I have tried. I wonder if any of my fellow forum folk can help me with this?
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29-Sep-2006, 00:12
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| | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
Could your father have been using the word "automaton", ie a person who acts like a machine, without thinking or feeling? |
29-Sep-2006, 10:37
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| | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
No, that's not it. |
29-Sep-2006, 17:14
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| | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
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Originally Posted by mykwyner  My father, who had a very extensive vocabulary, used to call us something that sounded like "ah-ma-dahms" when we blindly followed the crowd. | Well, what a fascinating chap your father must have been. I put armadames into google and, for what must be the first time ever, I only got one hit which is to www.spankingtools.com |
05-Oct-2006, 10:49
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| | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
Perhaps an "ah-ma-dahm" is like a yes-man in a department store, who greets any female client with the expression "Ah, Madame" with an affected quasi-French pronunciation, and holds that the customer is always right.
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25-Oct-2006, 22:24
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| | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
The English word for sheep-like is "ovine," from the Latin "ovis" for sheep. "Bovine," by the way, means ox-like, but is often expanded to include all cattle. - Tom Parrett |
26-Oct-2006, 00:29
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| | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
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Originally Posted by tomparrett The English word for sheep-like is "ovine," from the Latin "ovis" for sheep. "Bovine," by the way, means ox-like, but is often expanded to include all cattle. - Tom Parrett | The dictionary meaning of ovine and bovine refer to the animal species, and are not generally transferred to human behaviour, whereas sheeplike as a single word means like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity, and oxlike can mean a clumsy, stupid fellow. |
16-Jun-2008, 10:40
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| | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
This isn't directly relevant, but it's an interesting link: Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow and scroll down to 'Adjectives that describe animals' (stopping on the way to browse anything that takes your fancy).
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24-Jun-2008, 05:49
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| | Re: Is there a single word for `sheep-like' ?
sheep-like reminds me of the phrase 'like a lamb' but i guess that's not the one.. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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