sheepish

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

sheepish
    adj 1: like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or
           meekness or timidity [syn: {sheeplike}, {sheepish}]
    2: showing a sense of shame [syn: {shamefaced}, {sheepish}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sheepish \Sheep"ish\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to sheep. [Obs.]
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   2. Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly
      diffident; timorous to excess.
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            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.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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      swinish, timid, touched, tractable, ungulate, withdrawn

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