Noun
sheepskin (countable and uncountable, plural sheepskins)
- (uncountable) The skin of a sheep, especially when used to make parchment or in bookbinding.
1891, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, volume 17, page 137:I confess to having felt a prejudice against sleeping in a bag, more especially a sheepskin bag, which would probably have a muttony odor; but it was pronounced to be the warmest and least cumbersome form of bedding we could have […]
- (US, countable) A diploma.
1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 32, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 302:[…] he took his sheepskin with a bow and a gesture that extinguished several of his companions;
- (countable or uncountable) The tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on, especially when used for clothing, rugs, etc.
Translations
skin of a sheep
- Arabic: حَوَر (ḥawar)
- Bulgarian: овча кожа f (ovča koža)
- Catalan: badana (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 羊皮 (zh) (yángpí)
- Classical Nahuatl: ichcaēhuatl
- Esperanto: ŝafofelo
- French: peau de mouton f
- Galician: pelica f
- German: Schafspelz (de) m, Schaffell (de) n, Schafsfell (de) n, Schafleder (de) n, Schafsleder (de) n
- Greek:
- Ancient: μηλωτή f (mēlōtḗ)
- Japanese: 羊の毛皮 (ひつじのけがわ, hitsuji no kegawa)
- Latin: mastrūca f
- Maori: kiri hipi
- Persian: پوستین (fa) (pustin), وت (fa) (vat)
- Polish: baran (pl) m (colloquial), baranica (pl) f
- Russian: овчи́на (ru) f (ovčína), ове́чья шку́ра f (ovéčʹja škúra)
- Spanish: carnero (es) m, badana (es) f, zalea (es) f
- Swedish: fårskinn (sv) n
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