Usually means: Nervous or timid in company.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word shy:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. shy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shy, shy, shy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shy, shy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shy, shy: Wordnik
  7. -shy, shy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Shy, shy: Wiktionary
  9. shy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Shy: Dictionary.com
  13. shy (adj.), shy (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shy (album), Shy (band), Shy (company), Shy (disambiguation), Shy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shy: Rhymezone
  19. shy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SHY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Shy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. shy: Free Dictionary
  24. shy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. -shy, shy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. shy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -shy, shy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -shy, shy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. -shy, shy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHY: Acronym Finder
  2. SHY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. -shy, shy: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shy, shy, shy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shy: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shy: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Easily frightened; timid.
adjective:  Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
adjective:  Cautious; wary; suspicious.
adjective:  (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
adjective:  Embarrassed.
verb:  (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
verb:  (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
verb:  (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
verb:  (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
verb:  (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
noun:  An act of throwing.
noun:  A place for throwing.
noun:  A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
noun:  In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
noun:  (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
noun:  (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
noun:  (archaic) A gibe; a sneer.
noun:  A surname.

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