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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sheepish \Sheep"ish\, adjective
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}, adverb -- {Sheep"ish*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sheepish
adjective
1: like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity [syn: {sheeplike}]
2: showing a sense of shame [syn: {shamefaced}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "sheepish": abject, amenable, apologetic, asinine, blushful, blushing, bovid, bovine, caprid, caprine, compliant, contrite, cowish, cowlike, deerlike, docile, embarrassed, equestrian, equine, flushed, goatish, goatlike, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, horsy, humble, humbled, manipulable, meek, melted, mulish, obedient, ovine, passive, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, piggish, pliable, red, repentant, ruddy, ruminant, shamefaced, sheeplike, softened, swinish, timid, touched, tractable, ungulate, withdrawn
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