lamb
SubstantivVerbhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈlæm//
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈlam//
- Kanada//ˈlæm//
- /[ˈlæm]/
- /[ˈlɛə̯m] ~ [ˈleə̯m]/
A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months.
Substantiv
- 1
A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months.
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow.
Mark and Mark have raised some lambs for market, and they won a blue ribbon for quality at the fair.
- 2
veraltetA young goat; a kid.
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:”
- 3
The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food.
- 4
übertragenA person who is meek, docile, and easily led.
Near-synonym: sheep
- 5
Lambskin.
They were as alike as prisoners, dressed in black silk waists and fitted skirts, with shawls of crimped black lamb across their shoulders.
- 6
A simple, unsophisticated person.
- 7
SlangOne who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
- 8
SlangA fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).
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.
Herkunft
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.
Verb
- 1
Of a sheep, to give birth.
- 2
To assist (sheep) to give birth.
The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.
Formen
- Plural
- lambs, lamber, lambren
- Präteritum
- lambed
- Partizip II
- lambed
- Partizip I
- lambing
- 3. Person Singular
- lambs
lamb · A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months.
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