lamb

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

lamb [lamb lambs lambed lambing] noun, verb BrE [læm] NAmE [læm]
noun
1. countable a young sheep
2. uncountable meat from a young sheep
•a leg of lamb
•lamb chops
compare ↑mutton
3. countable (informal)used to describe or address sb with affection or pity
•You poor lamb!
more at mutton dressed as lamb at ↑mutton, (you, etc.) may/might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as (for) a lamb at ↑well _adv.

Word Origin:
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lam and German Lamm.

Example Bank:
•the traffic in illegally slaughtered lamb
Idiom: lamb to the slaughter
 
verb intransitive (of a sheep)
to give birth to a ↑lamb
•She's due to lamb in two weeks' time.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lam and German Lamm.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dear, Lamb, Charles Lamb, Elia