hangdog vs sheepish

hangdog

adj
  • Low; sneaking; ashamed. 

verb
  • To move or loiter in a sneaking or ashamed manner. 

noun
  • A base, degraded person. 

sheepish

adj
  • Shy, meek, shameful or embarrassed. 

  • Having the characteristics of a sheep. 

How often have the words hangdog and sheepish occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )