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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

sheep-biting en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) Contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving.
    • How like a sheep-biting Rogue taken i'th' manner, / And ready for the halter dost thou look now! 1624, John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife:
    • Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you. Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour. c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 5, scene 1:

Relateds

bitesheep · sheep-biter