Noun
She's as gentle as a lamb.
the new guys at football camp were lambs who hardly knew what awaited them Verb
The ewes will lamb soon.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The cumin lamb, a signature item at the restaurant and a staple in Xinjiang, in northwest China, is a family recipe and one of the few dishes that Jason Wang, the owner, enjoyed as a child.—New York Times, 18 June 2024 Michelle gets her chicken nugget in the fryer very late; Danny is struggling to cut his lamb chops; Manny is doing aguachile, because WHY.—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 May 2024
Verb
Electric fences can keep bears, wolves and coyotes out of calving and lambing pastures.—Ben Long, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024 As Rona tends to the farming demands of lambing season, reminders of her raucous drunken days in London rupture her thoughts like shards of glass, with the thumping techno music that accompanies many of those memories pounding away in her headphones.—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See all Example Sentences for lamb
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German lamb lamb
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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