1. coy - Noun
2. coy - Adjective
3. coy - Verb
4. coy - Adjective Satellite
5. Coy - Proper noun
Quiet; still.
Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry.
Soft; gentle; hesitating.
To allure; to entice; to decoy.
To caress with the hand; to stroke.
To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity.
To make difficulty; to be unwilling.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTruth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors. Arthur Schopenhauer
On that subject I am coy. Aaron Burr
Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you; for without critical judgement, the weapon you wield delivers - and let us not be coy here - naught but murder. And its first victim is the moral probity of your cause. Steven Erikson
There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out. Rooney Mara
‘She is a goddess,' said Ambrose, drunkenly and stoutly. ‘...And she wants me. She's the pursuer...She's the epitome of woman, not,' he said, ‘not a second-hand bundle of coy erogeneity draped,' he said, ‘in an all-too-diaphanous robe,' he said, ‘of pudeur.' Anthony Burgess
A gadding girl is rarely coy. Latin Proverb