SHEEPISH

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of or pertaining to sheep. [Obs.]

2.
a.

Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess. Wanting change of company, he will, when he comes abroad, be a sheepish or conceited creature. Locke. -- Sheep"ish*ly, adv. -- Sheep"ish*ness, n.


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