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sheep-faced

sheep-faced adjective: bashful; sheepish.

Adjective

sheep-faced (comparative more sheep-faced, superlative most sheep-faced)

  1. (dated) bashful; sheepish
    • Margaret and Marillier stand, he rather sheepfaced, but putting on a bold and smiling front,1908, Alfred Sutro, The barrier; a new and original play in four acts, page 54
    • So presently his lordship began to tell his symptoms to the doctor. The first part of ‘em seemed natural enough for a sheep faced village idiot like him.1922, Percival Gibbon, Looters, Chicago Tribune
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sheep, face.

Forms of sheep-faced

comparativemore sheep-faced
superlativemost sheep-faced
alternative formsheepfaced

Questions about sheep-faced

What does sheep-faced mean?
Sheep-faced means bashful; sheepish.
What part of speech is sheep-faced?
Sheep-faced is an adjective.

Words near sheep-faced in the dictionary

  1. sheep-biting
  2. sheep-dip
  3. sheep-dipped
  4. sheep-dipping
  5. sheep-dips
  6. sheep-faced
  7. sheep-headed
  8. sheep-like
  9. sheep-run
  10. sheep-runs
  11. sheep-shagger

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