shy
suomi-englanti sanakirjashy englannista suomeksi
heittää, paiskata, viskata
heitto
vajaa
ujosteleva
säikkyä, kavahtaa
ujo
Verbi
Substantiivi
shy englanniksi
Easily frightened; timid.
(RQ:Swift Gulliver's Travels)
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(RQ:Arbuthnot John Bull)
2015 October 30, ''(w)'', Season 18, Episode 6:
- ''(w):'' But the people coming up to you now, like the Americans, well, you know, the Americans, they're not shy, the Americans.''(w):'' No. Well, no but I don't go anywhere where really they ''can'' get at me. It's usually in museums and art galleries and things, so that limits things. I keep away from there, and (w) I don't go near.
(RQ:Butler Hudibras)
1641, (w), ''The Characters of Robert Devereux and George Villiers''
- Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their successors.
(RQ:Boyle Some Considerations Touching Experimental Essays in Genera)
- I am very shy of building any thing of moment upon foundations
Short, insufficient or less than.
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To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
(RQ:Hughes Tom Brown)
(RQ:Collins Moonstone)
(Scottish) or To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match. To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
An act of throwing.
(RQ:Thackeray Pendenni)
- Foker discharged a prodigious bouquet at her, and even Smirke made a feeble shy with a rose, and blushed dreadfully when it fell into the pit
1846, ''Punch'' Volume 10
- If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.
2008, (w), ''Kieron Smith, Boy'', Penguin 2009, p. 55:
- The game had started. A man was chasing the ball, it went out for a shy.
A place for throwing.
In the Eton College game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
(Scottish) In soccer, a throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head. 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.