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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