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sheep-biting

adj

Definitions

  1. Contemptible

    Contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving.

    • 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!

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