sheep-biter

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sheepdog that worries (chases or attacks) sheep. obsolete
    — What curre will not bawle, & be ready to flye on a mans face, when he is set on by his master, who, if hee bee not by to encourage him, he casts his taile betwixt his legges, & steales away like a sheepe byter.
  2. A contemptible person, especially one who practices petty thefts. derogatory,figuratively,obsolete
    — His gait, like a sheep-biter, fleering aside

词形变化

sheep-biters plural sheepbiter alternative

词汇关系

近义词
git and Thesaurus:thief
衍生词
sheep-biting
相关词
bitesheep

词源

sheep + biter (“one who bites”). Figurative term possibly influenced by the fable "De cane oves domini sui occidente, a quo suspensus est" in Hecatomythium by Laurentius Abstemius (later included with Aesop's Fables as "A Sheep-Biter Hang'd" — see quotations).
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