shippon
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English shipne, shepne, schüpene, from Old English sċypen, from Proto-Germanic *skupinī, from Proto-Germanic *skup- (whence shop). Cognate with German Schuppen (“shed”), and Bavarian Schupfn, Schupfa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]shippon (plural shippons)
- (now dialectal) A cattleshed.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 51:
- He almost reached the timberline – but there the weather changed, a damp fog enveloped him, and he spent a couple of hours shivering all alone in a smelly shippon, waiting for the whirling mists to uncover the sun once more.
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