Noun: shy
Sample Sentences
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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 [1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:]
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If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody. [1846, Punch, volume 10:]
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The game had started. A man was chasing the ball, it went out for a shy. [2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 55:]
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coconut shy
Nouns inflected like shy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English shy (“shy”), from Old English sċēoh (“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”). See: German Nouns '
scheu', Danish Nouns '
sky'.
Verbs referencing "shy"
English Nouns
skive, Italian Nouns
schifo, German Nouns
Scheu.