sheep-biting in English

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          "ref": "c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 5, scene 1:",
          "text": "Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you. Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour.",
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          "ref": "1624, John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife:",
          "text": "How like a sheep-biting Rogue taken i'th' manner, / And ready for the halter dost thou look now!",
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        "Contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving."
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        "(obsolete) Contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "bitesheep"
        },
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          "word": "sheep-biter"
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        "not-comparable",
        "obsolete"
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  "word": "sheep-biting"
}

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      "expansion": "sheep-biting (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "word": "bitesheep"
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      "word": "sheep-biter"
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          "ref": "c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 5, scene 1:",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1624, John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife:",
          "text": "How like a sheep-biting Rogue taken i'th' manner, / And ready for the halter dost thou look now!",
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        "Contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving."
      ],
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          "unscrupulous",
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        "(obsolete) Contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving."
      ],
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        "not-comparable",
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  "word": "sheep-biting"
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"sheep-biting" meaning in English

Adjective