Meaning of sheep-biting | Babel Free
Definitions
Contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving.
not-comparable, obsolete
Examples
“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!”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.