Synonymer
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Definitioner
Adjektiv
- Easily frightened; timid.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- Short, insufficient or less than.
- Embarrassed.
Verb
- (intransitive) To avoid due to timidness or caution.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (transitive) to throw sideways with a jerk; to fling
Substantiv
Exempel
- The horses of the army [...] were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting.
- He is very shy with strangers.
- What makes you so shy, my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.
- I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines.
- Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their successors.
- By our count your shipment came up two shy of the bill of lading amount.
- It is just shy of a mile from here to their house.
- The horse shied away from the rider, which startled him so much he shied away from the horse.
- to shy a stone; to shy a slipper
- If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.
- The game had started. A man was chasing the ball, it went out for a shy.
- coconut shy
Böjningsformer
| Perfektparticip | shied | Imperfekt | shied |
| Presensparticip | shying | Plural | shies |
| Komparativ | shyer | Komparativ | shier |
| Superlativ | shiest | Superlativ | shyest |
| Tredje person singular indicativ presens | shies | Tredje person singular indicativ presens | shieth |