RT2 10a

[Southsider]

Is it Shaikh or sheikh please? Or neither?
Unsettle noisy Arab leader

[bibblebub]

sheikh

[4846]

Have seen this answered on here as Sheikh

[Southsider]

Thank you. That was very quick!
I'll see if i can finish it now.

[DTCwordfan]

the confusion is because of the entymology of the word.

I quote:

Sheikh, also rendered as Sheik, Cheikh, Sjeik, Shaykh, Shaikh, Sheekh, Sheyh, Šeih, Šejh, Şeyh and other variants (Arabic: شيخ‎ shaykh; (in Urdu شیخ, Shiekh); pl. شيوخ‎ shuyūkh), is a word or honorific term in the Arabic language that literally means "Scholar".

[bibblebub]

When it was asked the other day the OP gave it as 6 letters and had got some of them already.

[factor-fiction]

I knew you'd get fast response on here- within two sheikhs of a lamb's tail.

Can someone explain for me the word play please for this one?

[bibblebub]

sounds like (noisy) 'shake' = unsettle

[4846]

Most sheikhs are muslims and they like lamb hence two sheikhs of a lamb's tail not a cows tail.

[writesbad]

Factor 30, you shouldn't tease us with pretended ignorance. Some people, like Bibblebub, will take your question seriously