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lamblike

[lam-lahyk]

adjective

like a lamb; gentle; meek.

Origin:
1590–1600; lamb + -like

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lamb (læm)

—n
1.	the young of a sheep
2.	the meat of a young sheep
3.	a person, esp a child, who is innocent, meek, good, etc
4.	a person easily deceived
5.	like a lamb to the slaughter
	a. without resistance
	b. innocently

—vb
6.	(intr) Also: lamb down (of a ewe) to give birth
7.	(tr; used in the passive) (of a lamb) to be born
8.	(intr) (of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time

[Old English lamb, from Germanic; compare German Lamm, Old High German and Old Norse lamb]

'lamblike

—*adj*

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