Sheepish

Definition of Sheepish

Sheep´ish
a.1.Of or pertaining to sheep.
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.

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abject, amenable, apologetic, asinine, blushful, blushing, bovid, bovine, caprid, caprine, compliant, contrite, cowish, cowlike, deerlike, docile, equestrian, equine, flushed, goatish, goatlike, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, horsy, humbled, manipulable, meek, melted, mulish, obedient, ovine, passive, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, piggish, pliable, red, repentant, ruddy, ruminant, shamefaced, sheeplike, softened, swinish, touched, tractable, ungulate, withdrawn
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