sheepadoodle

English

Etymology

Blend of sheepdog +‎ poodle, after Labradoodle; compare doodle (“poodle crossbreed”).

Noun

sheepadoodle (plural sheepadoodles)

  1. A dog that is a cross between an Old English Sheepdog and a poodle.
    • 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 257:
      “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.
    • 2015, Eliot Peper, “Acknowledgments”, in Uncommon Stock: Exit Strategy (The Uncommon Series; part III), [North Charleston, S.C.]: [CreateSpace], →ISBN:
      Claire, our painfully cute sheepadoodle puppy was my constant companion.
    • 2024, Sylvia Liu, chapter 1, in Near and Deer, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:
      My sheepadoodle turns and runs again to the woods past the goat pen, barking.
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