geep: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Sep. 13, 2014

geep \geep\ noun 1. the hybrid offspring of a goat and a sheep. Quotes One of his goat-plus-sheep chimeras, known colloquially as a geep, was featured on the cover of Nature. -- Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, and Colin Tudge, The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control, 2000 Origin Geep is a portmanteau from the 1970s that combines the words goat and sheep.

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