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Meaning of sheep-biting | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

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.

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