sheepadoodle

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noun

A dog that is a cross between an Old English Sheepdog and a poodle.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounsheepadoodle (plural sheepadoodles)

plural sheepadoodles

  1. A dog that is a cross between an Old English Sheepdog and a poodle.

    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
    2 more examples

    “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

    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

Origin

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

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APA

sheepadoodle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sheepadoodle

MLA

“sheepadoodle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sheepadoodle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sheepadoodle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sheepadoodle.

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