1. shy - Noun
2. shy - Adjective
3. shy - Verb
5. shy - Adjective Satellite
6. Shy - Proper noun
Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
To start suddenly aside through fright or suspicion; -- said especially of horses.
To throw sidewise with a jerk; to fling; as, to shy a stone; to shy a slipper.
A side throw; a throw; a fling.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. William Wordsworth
Shy and proud men ... are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. Henry Taylor
I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back. Jason Statham
A man who has eaten something becomes shy. Somali Proverb
A man is shy in another man's corner. Irish Proverb
Once bitten, twice shy. English Proverb