| Pronunciation: | | 'sheepish
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- [adj] showing a sense of shame
- [adj] like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity
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SHEEPISH is a 8 letter word that starts with S. |
| | Synonyms: | | ashamed(p), docile, shamefaced, sheeplike |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Sheep"ish\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to sheep. [Obs.]
2. 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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