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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(ant)
(ux)
(RQ:Arbuthnot Law)
(quote-av):'' 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)
(quote-text)
(RQ:Boyle Physiological Essays) I am very ſhy of building any thing of moment upon foundations that I eſteem ſo unſure, (..)
Short, insufficient or less than.
(quote-av)
(quote-web)
(rfex)
To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
(rfdatek) (page 172)
- Courts might tend to shy from limiting Congress under such a vague standard.
(RQ:Hughes Tom Brown)
(RQ:Collins Moonstone)
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 Pendennis
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{{quote-text|en|year=2008|author=James Kelman|title=Kieron Smith, Boy|page=55|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2009
A place for throwing.
In the Eton College game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
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.