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noun
1.
a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock: a herd of cattle; a herd of sheep; a herd of zebras.
2.
Sometimes Disparaging. a large group of people: The star was mobbed by a herd of autograph seekers.
3.
any large quantity: a herd of bicycles.
4.
the herd, the common people; masses; rabble: He had no opinions of his own, but simply followed the herd.
verb (used without object)
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to unite or go in a herd; assemble or associate as a herd.
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Herding
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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ride herd on, to have charge or control of; maintain discipline over: He rode herd on 40 students in each class.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English heord; cognate with Gothic hairda, German Herde
before 1000; Middle English; Old English heord; cognate with Gothic hairda, German Herde
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noun
1.
a herdsman (usually used in combination): a cowherd; a goatherd; a shepherd.
verb (used with object)
2.
to tend, drive, or lead (cattle, sheep, etc.).
3.
to conduct or drive (a group of people) to a destination: The teacher herded the children into the classroom.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English herd(e), hirde, Old English hierde; cognate with Gothic hairdeis, German Hirt(e); derivative of herd1
before 900; Middle English herd(e), hirde, Old English hierde; cognate with Gothic hairdeis, German Hirt(e); derivative of herd1
Synonyms
2. guard, protect, watch.
2. guard, protect, watch.
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Word Origin & History
herd
O.E. heord, from P.Gmc. *kherdo- (cf. O.N. hjorð, O.H.G. herta, Ger. Herde, Goth. hairda "herd"), from PIE *kherdha- "a row, group" (cf. Skt. sardhah "herd, troop," O.C.S. creda "herd," Gk. korthys "heap," Lith. kerdzius "shepherd"). The verb is first recorded 1393. Herdsman is O.E. heordman, but
EXPANDnot common until herd in sense of "keeper of domestic animals which go in herds" fell from use (cf. shepherd). Intrusive -s- appeared c.1600, on model of craftsman, etc. Herd instinct in psychology is first recorded 1908.
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