Meanings
plural sheepadoodles
- 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], →ISBN2 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 257My 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”).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
sheepadoodle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sheepadoodle
“sheepadoodle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sheepadoodle. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sheepadoodle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sheepadoodle.
Source: sheepadoodle on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.