Crossword clues for sheepish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sheepish \Sheep"ish\, a.
Of or pertaining to sheep. [Obs.]
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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. [1913 Webster] -- Sheep"ish*ly, adv. -- Sheep"ish*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "resembling a sheep" in some perceived characteristic, from sheep + -ish. The sense of "bashful, over-modest, awkward among strangers" first is recorded 1690s. Related: Sheepishly; sheepishness. Old English had sceaplic "of a sheep, 'sheep-ly.'"
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having the characteristics of a sheep 2 shy, meek, shameful or embarrassed
WordNet
adj. like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity [syn: sheeplike]
showing a sense of shame [syn: shamefaced]
Usage examples of "sheepish".
We are compelled to let several English sailors pass before us, decked out in their white drill clothes, fresh, fat, and pink, like little sugar figures, who attitudinize in a sheepish manner around the shafts of the columns.
It would be gone by tomorrow, and people would return to their normal lives, sheepish about how they folded in the face of such a small threat.
A sheepish Cindee Maloo rose into view from behind the shattered wall.
They both looked rather sheepish and assured her most earnestly that they would never again undertake so shatterbrained an enterprise.
He had reappeared late last night, slinking into the camp on all fours, his face sheepish.
His longing expression, followed by sheepish blushing, finished off one lingering doubt Maia had nursedthat Brod might just possibly be a spy, left here by the reavers to watch over the prisoners.
Twenty minutes later, as the fingers drummed on a table surrounded by sheepish men and one man furious to the limits of his tether, General All Amin returned with a fat file folder in his hands and a confident smile on his face.
Surprised by Alec's mishap, Todd offered sheepish apologies for his behaviour and refrained from practising the deep gutturals at mealtimes.
The lynch mob stood with bowed heads, as sheepish as schoolboys caught smoking.
Feeling a little sheepish, Fyodor agreed, and to his delight he found that the feeling of safety Wedigar's assurances gave him seemed to hold the killing rages at bay.
Feeling a little sheepish, Fyodor agreed, and to his delight he found that the feeling of safety Wedigar’s assurances gave him seemed to hold the killing rages at bay.
The two chapel guards had turned up on the doorstep the other day, looking decidedly sheepish and reeling off Nabber's secret entry phrase.