\Sheep"ish\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to sheep. [Obs.]
2. Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly
   diffident; timorous to excess.
         Wanting change of company, he will, when he comes
         abroad, be a sheepish or conceited creature.
                                               --Locke.
   -- {Sheep"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Sheep"ish*ness}, n.