lamb
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-.
See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.
Inflected forms:
form: lambs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lamber
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
plural
form: lambren
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lambs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lambing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lambed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lambed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A young sheep.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow.
gloss: A young goat; a kid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Exodus 12:5: “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:”
gloss: The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A person who is meek, docile, and easily led.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: sheep
gloss: Lambskin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They were as alike as prisoners, dressed in black silk waists and fitted skirts, with shawls of crimped black lamb across their shoulders.
gloss: A simple, unsophisticated person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Part of me revels in the campiness of Mariah’s butterfly metaphors and puppies-and-kittens existence. […] But I also genuinely love her music, including this album. I’m one of her lambs.
Her latest album, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” is her best work yet, a warmer and more subtle album that makes her more relatable to those of us who aren’t Mariah die-hards—or “lambs,” as she refers to them.
This year, Ms. Carey debuted a new Las Vegas revue, and, to celebrate, a group of 36 “lambs,” mostly in their 30s and 40s, boarded a party bus and cruised the Vegas strip for about three hours.
But when I saw Mariah in Detroit last year during the Caution World Tour, I was a proud lamb in my tour T-shirt, my very adult body suddenly transformed into my 14-year-old self when she emerged onstage.
Pride Month begins June 1, and Mariah Carey is giving her lambs plenty of new clothes to celebrate.
gloss: Of a sheep, to give birth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To assist (sheep) to give birth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.
Derived words: baa-lamb
bar-lamb
beaver lamb
ewe lamb
gentle as a lamb
house lamb
in-lamb
in lamb
in like a lion, out like a lamb
innocent as a lamb
in two shakes of a lamb's tail
lamb-ale
lambchop
lamb down
lamber
Lambeth
lambfold
lamb fries
lambhood
lambie
lambiness
lambing
lambing season
lambish
lambkill
lambkin
lambless
lamblike
lambling
lamb of Tartary
lamb pie
lamb's bread
lamb's cress
lamb's ears
lambsfoot
lamb's fries
lambskin
lamb's lettuce
lambsquarters
lamb's quarters
lamb's tongue
lamb succory
lambswool
lamb to the slaughter
like a lamb to the slaughter
come like a lamb to the slaughter
as a lamb to the slaughter
lamburger
lamby
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
Mongolian lamb
mutton dressed as lamb
mutton dressed up as lamb
one may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb
Paschal Lamb
paschal lamb
Persian lamb
sacrificial lamb
Scythian lamb
skin the lamb
spider lamb syndrome
spring lamb
Tartarian lamb
tod and lambs
vegetable lamb
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