| 释义 |
sheepishness|ˈʃiːpɪʃnɪs|
[-ness.]
† Simplicity, stupidity; † timorousness; excessive bashfulness or diffidence.
1577Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. 62 To speake something with too much simplicitie..is a sheepishnesse. 1605Chapman All Fools i. ii. 145 Your forged sheepishnes. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Ch. Porch xvi, Thy Gentrie bleats, as if thy native cloth Transfus'd a sheepishnesse into thy storie. 1647Trapp Comm. 2 Cor. xi. 3 Simplicity: the world cals it sillinesse, sheepishnesse. 1712Steele Spect. No. 484 ⁋5 Under the notion of modesty, men have indulged themselves in a spiritless sheepishness. 1814Scott Wav. xviii, A natural and rustic grace, with nothing of the sheepishness of an ordinary peasant. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. vi. 153 He is bashful, even to sheepishness. |