'Sheepishness' definitions:
Definition of 'sheepishness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Feeling embarrassed about yourself [syn: shamefacedness, sheepishness]
Definition of 'Sheepishness'
From: GCIDE
- Sheepish \Sheep"ish\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to sheep. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]