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shy
English
Etymology
From Middle English shy (“shy”), from Old English s??oh (“shy”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeuh (“shy, fearful”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“shy, fearful”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian skjou (“shy”), Dutch schuw (“shy”), German scheu (“shy”), Danish sky (“shy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophone: Chi
Adjective
shy (comparative shier or shyer or more shy, superlative shiest or shyest or most shy)
- Easily frightened; timid.
- 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- The horses of the army, and those of the royal stables, having been daily led before me, were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting.
- 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:shy
- Antonyms: audacious, bold, brazen, gregarious, extroverted, outgoing
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- What makes you so shy, my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- 1641, Henry Wotton, The Characters of Robert Devereux and George Villiers
- Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their successors.
- 1661, Robert Boyle , Some Considerations Touching Experimental Essays in General
- I am very shy of building any thing of moment upon foundations
- 1641, Henry Wotton, The Characters of Robert Devereux and George Villiers
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
- Embarrassed.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Usage notes
- Often used in combination with a noun to produce an adjective or adjectival phrase.
- Adjectives are usually applicable to animals (leash-shy "shy of leashes" or head shy "shy of contact around the head" (of horses)) or to children.
Derived terms
- shy bairns get nowt, shy bairns get noot
Translations
See also
- bashful
- reserved
- timid
- demure
- coy
Verb
shy (third-person singular simple present shies, present participle shying, simple past and past participle shied)
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution or timidness.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
Translations
Noun
shy (plural shies)
- An act of throwing.
- Foker discharged a prodigious bouquet at her, and even Smirke made a feeble shy with a rose, and blushed dreadfully when it fell into the pit
- 1846, Punch Volume 10
- If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 55:
- The game had started. A man was chasing the ball, it went out for a shy.
- A place for throwing.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
Derived terms
- coconut shy
- have a shy
Translations
Anagrams
- Hys, hys, syh
shy From the web:
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crushed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k???t/
Verb
crushed
- simple past tense and past participle of crush
Adjective
crushed (comparative more crushed, superlative most crushed)
- Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
- Broken, saddened, depressed.
- (not comparable, textiles) Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.
Derived terms
- crushed sugar
- crushed velvet
Translations
crushed From the web:
- what crushed kokichi
- what crushed the revolt of the carbonari
- what crushed the boxer rebellion
- what crushed diamond
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