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bitesheeps

bitesheeps is the plural of bitesheep.

Meaning of bitesheep

Noun

bitesheep (plural bitesheeps)

  1. (derogatory, obsolete, slur) A bishop, particularly a Catholic bishop persecuting Protestants.
    • Wherefore mine advice and most earnest desire is, with all other of your loving friends, that you still keep that order with those bloodthirsty bitesheeps (bishops, I should say) that you have begun. For though in conclusion they will surely have your blood, yet shall they come by it with shame...c. 1556, John Foxe, “A Letter of John Careless, answering to the loving Epistle or Letter sent to him before by Master John Philpot”, in Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley, editor, The Acts and Monuments of...

Questions about bitesheeps

What is bitesheeps the plural of?
Bitesheeps is the plural of bitesheep.

Words near bitesheeps in the dictionary

  1. bites the curb
  2. bites the dust
  3. bites the hand that feeds one
  4. bitesful
  5. bitesheep
  6. bitesheeps
  7. biteshipe
  8. biteshipes
  9. bitesize
  10. bitesome
  11. bitest

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