shelty

American  

[shel-tee] / ˈʃɛl ti /

Or sheltie

noun

Informal.

• shelties
  plural

1. Shetland pony.

2. Shetland sheepdog.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• shelties
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of shelty

1640–50; shelt (< Old Norse hjaltr “native of Shetland”) + -y ²

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Example Sentences

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shelty shelties

But at this moment Surefoot is stretched more like a stone than a shelty in the land of Nod.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

The shelty came down over the rump of a red bullock, and Sim was sprawling on his face in the trampled grass.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan

"You, sir, doubtless, are well mounted, and I for the present travel on foot, or on a Highland shelty, that does not help me much faster forward."

From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott

Even nearer home, the Irish turf cabin and the Highland stone shelty can hardly have advanced much during the last two thousand years.

From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Alfred Russel Wallace

When the deed was done the shelty was brought back to its tether as mysteriously as it had been taken away.

From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

Yet here he is, three decades later, sipping micheladas in Santa Monica while his pet shelties frolic in a grove of lemon trees.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2020

Sandy McNab, the packman, was found on the point of starting, with his two half-starved shelties, scarcely the size of ordinary donkeys, but with wonderful strength of limb and power of endurance.

From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by T. Hoggans

Others were driven on to the prairie, and turning their backs to the storm, stood still or moved sideways, with cowering heads, their manes and tails floating wildly, like those of Highland shelties.

From The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America by D. H. Friston

I must always except that petty theft of feeding their shelties and asses on the farmer’s grass and corn, which they will do, whether at home or abroad.

From A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies by John Hoyland

Many a pleasant adventure they had as they rode together on their sure-footed little "shelties," or climbed the crags and rocks to look down upon the isles, "like so many stars reflected from the sky."

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated by Mary Mapes Dodge

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