Definition of shy

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Shy (superl.) Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird..

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Bladderwort :: Bladderwort (n.) A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium..
Flashily :: Flashily (adv.) In a flashy manner; with empty show.
Shy :: Shy (n.) A side throw; a throw; a fling.
Mooncalf :: Mooncalf (n.) A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus..
Spadix :: Spadix (n.) A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe..
Brush :: Brush (n.) The bushy tail of a fox.
Retiring :: Retiring (a.) Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners..
Cassava :: Cassava (n.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc..
Chops :: Chops (n. pl.) The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth..
Fire-fanged :: Fire-fanged (a.) Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.
Sycophancy :: Syconus (n.) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig..
Tod :: Tod (n.) A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.
Chap :: Chap (n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings..
Flashiness :: Flashiness (n.) The quality of being flashy.
Washiness :: Washiness (n.) The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak..
Shock-headed :: Shock-headed (a.) Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
Queachy :: Queachy (a.) Like a queach; thick; bushy.
Duffer :: Duffer (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat..
Rand :: Rand (n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak..
Moor :: Moor (n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath..
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