old english sheepdog

1. 1.

   large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain

   Synonymsbobtail

   Broadershepherd dog

Questions about old english sheepdog

What does old english sheepdog mean?

old english sheepdog means "large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain".

What is another word for old english sheepdog?

Close synonyms include bobtail. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is old english sheepdog a common word?

old english sheepdog is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.