Word
of the Day for Thursday 25th September 2014
Geep \geep\
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Noun
1. The hybrid offspring of a goat and a sheep.
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Quotes
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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
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Origin
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Geep is a portmanteau from the 1970’s that combines the words goat and sheep.
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