ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Sheep-biting

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Sheep-biting is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving.

Meaning

(obsolete) Contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving.

Example Sentences

Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you. Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour.
How like a sheep-biting Rogue taken i'th' manner, / And ready for the halter dost thou look now!

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sheepish, scurvy, sheep-faced, furacious, contemptible, buckish.

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