Meanings
plural shippons · alternative shippen
- dialectalA cattleshed.
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.
1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 51
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*skup-
- Proto-Germanic*skupinī
- Old Englishsċypen
- Middle Englishshipne
- Englishshippon
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.
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shippon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shippon
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