Meanings
adjectivesheep-biting (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteContemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving.
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 11 more example
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
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