shippon

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃɪpən/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cattleshed. dialectal
    — 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.

词形变化

shippons plural shippen alternative

词源

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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