Sheep shagger
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Sheep-shagger (also spelt
sheepshagger or
sheep shagger) is a derogatory term, most often used to refer to
Welsh people implying that the subject has sex with sheep.
[1] In a
court case in Britain, the use of the term directed at a Welsh person was ruled to be a "racially aggravating" factor in a
disorderly conduct offence.
[2] It is also used in
South Africa to refer to Australians and by Australians to refer to New Zealanders.
[3]
Court case[edit]
In
Prestatyn, Wales, the phrase was the subject of a 2013
court case, after Anthony Taaffe of
Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, a guest at a holiday park in
Gronant, called an off-duty policeman and security staff "a bunch of sheep-shaggers". Taaffe claimed, in his defence, that the phrase was "a term for people living in the countryside". He also admitted a second similar offence, in which he called a police officer, at the custody unit to which he had been taken, a "Welsh sheep shagger". Taaffe was fined £150 after he admitted racially aggravated
disorderly behaviour.
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