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sheep-o(h, int. and n. Austral. and N.Z.|ˈʃiːpəʊ|
[f. sheep n. + -o2.]
A. int. A shearer's call for a sheep to shear.
B. n. (Chiefly N.Z.) = penner-up s.v. penner4.
1900H. Lawson On the Track 132 ‘Go it, you—tigers!’ yells a tarboy. ‘Wool away!’ ‘Tar!’ ‘Sheep Ho!’ We rush through with a whirring noise till breakfast time. 1911W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush viii. 124 The ‘sheep-oh’ sets to work to fill the nearly emptied pens. 1925R. Rees Lake of Enchantment vii. 111 The [shearing] gang [included]..some boys to act as ‘sheep-os’—that is to keep the pens in the shed filled up from the yards outside. 1940, etc. [see penner4]. 1949P. Newton High Country Days 5 The cry of ‘Sheepo!’ would rouse the ‘penner-up’. 1955G. Bowen Wool Away! (1956) vii. 96 The ‘sheepo’ is the man who fills the catching pens. He gets this title from the fact that when a shearer catches the last sheep in his pen, he gives the call of ‘sheepo’. |