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sheep-biting

sheep-biting adjective: contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving.

Adjective

sheep-biting (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving.
    • Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you. Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 5, scene 1
    • How like a sheep-biting Rogue taken i'th' manner, / And ready for the halter dost thou look now!1624, John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife

Questions about sheep-biting

What does sheep-biting mean?
Sheep-biting means contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving.
What part of speech is sheep-biting?
Sheep-biting is an adjective.

Words near sheep-biting in the dictionary

  1. sheep's-bit
  2. sheep-bell
  3. sheep-bells
  4. sheep-biter
  5. sheep-biters
  6. sheep-biting
  7. sheep-dip
  8. sheep-dipped
  9. sheep-dipping
  10. sheep-dips
  11. sheep-faced

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