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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sheepish \Sheep"ish\, a.
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}, adv -- {Sheep"ish*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sheepish
adj 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}]
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