shippon

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Etymology

From Middle English shipne, shepne, schüpene, from Old English sċypen, from Proto-Germanic *skupinī, from Proto-Germanic *skup- (whence shop). Cognate with German Schuppen (shed), and Bavarian Schupfn, Schupfa.

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Noun

shippon (plural shippons)

  1. (now dialectal) A cattleshed.
    • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 51:
      He almost reached the timberline – but there the weather changed, a damp fog enveloped him, and he spent a couple of hours shivering all alone in a smelly shippon, waiting for the whirling mists to uncover the sun once more.

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