shippon

English

Alternative forms

• shippen

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪpən/

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.

Anagrams

• Hoppins, Phipson, shoppin'