SHY, SHYLY, SHYNESS
ADJECTIVES
..897 — SHAMEFAST shy, modest, bashful → arch.
1550 — VERECUND shy, coy, modest, bashful
1555 — SHAMEFACED shy, modest, bashful
1560 — SKEIGH shy, coy, disdainful, proud → Sc.
1639 — CAN’T SAY BOO TO A GOOSE very shy or timid
1639 — VERECUNDIOUS shy, coy, modest, bashful → obs.
1641 — MIM affectedly shy or modest; prudish; primly silent or reticent → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1656 — PAVID shy, timid, fearful, quaking
1670 — SCAR shy, scared, timid; wild; sour-looking → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1765 — FAROUCHE shy, sullen, unsociable; distant in manner
1765 — FAROUCHIE shy, sullen, unsociable; distant in manner → Sc.
1766 — CREEP-MOUSE shy, timid; creeping like a mouse so as to escape notice
1776 — BIRD-MOUTHED shy of expressing an opinion, unwilling to speak out → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1781 — SCARE shy, affectedly modest → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1783 — ONKED → UNKED → UNKID shy, uncouth, awkward, ill-behaved → Eng. dial.
1787 — THIEVELESS shy, reserved; cold, frigid in manner, forbidding → Sc.
1790 — MIM-MOUTHED shy at speaking out; soft-spoken → Sc. & Eng. dial.
..19C — SMOOTY-FACED shy, bashful, modest, shame-faced → Eng. dial.
1804 — DAFFISH shy, sheepish, modest → Eng. dial.
1815 — MILK-FACED shy, timid
1819 — MEEVERLY → MEVERLY shy, bashful → Eng. dial.
1825 — OFFISH shy, reserved, unsocial
1828 — YONDERLY shy, timid; distant in manner, reserved, sullen → Eng. dial.
1876 — ANERLY → YANNERLY shy, fond of retirement → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1882 — THARF shy; slow; forbidding, cold, unsociable → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1883 — SHAME shy, ashamed, embarrassed → Amer. dial., chiefly African-American
1889 — BACKWARD shy, bashful, diffident; slow → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1891 — CAPEOVI shy, sick; ‘seedy’ → costers’ usage (Bk.)
1896 — BACKERLY shy, retiring → Eng. dial.
1896 — BACKGROUND shy, retiring; modest → colloq.
1896 — MIM-SPOKEN shy at speaking out; soft-spoken → Sc.
1898 — BASH shy, bashful → Eng. dial.. (Bk.)
1899 — BACKWARD IN COMING FORWARD → BACKWARD IN GOING FORWARD shy, reluctant → Amer. colloq.
1900 — DYVOUS shy, retiring; moody, melancholy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — FASH shy, bashful → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1903 — PEAKY shy, bashful → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SCARTLY shy, frightened, wild → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — THARFISH shy, timorous; forbidding → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1906 — LARY shy, distrustful, leery → Amer. dial.
1911 — BLAIT → BLATE shy, sheepish, bashful, timid → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BLEAT shy, timid → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BOGLESOME shy, skittish → Sc. (Bk.)
1925 — LEFTY shy, bashful →Sc.
1932 — AW-SHUCKS shy, bashful, genially self-deprecating → colloq.
1937 — BULL-SHY shy, bashful, timid → Amer. dial.
1987 — HANGBACK shy → Amer. dial.
1995 — MOUSY shy and reserved → US sl. (Bk.)
ADVERBS
1577 — DANGEROUSLY shyly; with reserve; charily → obs.
1707 — ABEIGH at a shy distance, aloof → Sc.
1825 — BLAITLY shyly, bashfully → Sc.
NOUNS
1911 — BLATENESS shyness → Sc. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1585 — SHELL-SNAIL a shy, retiring person
1819 — WALLFLOWER a shy, retiring person → colloq.
1824 — WILLYART a shy person; a timid suitor → Sc.
1839 — MOUSE an extremely shy or introverted person; a weakling; a coward
1850 — BLATE a shy person → Sc.
1892 — CIMARRON a shy, bashful child →Amer. dial.
1910 — SCODGE a shy, retiring person → Sc.
1915 — SHRINKING VIOLET a shy person → colloq.
1920 — CANCELLED STAMP a shy person → US sl.
1970 — WALNUT a shy male; a male wallflower → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1996 — MOO-MOO an extremely shy person, too nervous to speak out → W. Indies sl.
1997 — BIRDMOUTH a shy, unassertive, timid person → Ulster sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
1911 — BOGGLE to shy, to take fright → Sc. (Bk.)
1931 — BOOGER to cause to shy away; to frighten; to spook → Amer. dial.
1980 — DO A BROWN ACT to act in a shy manner; to sulk → NZ sl.
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