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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Fight Shy (To). To avoid. A shy person is unwilling to come forward, and to fight is to resist, to struggle in a contest. To "fight shy," therefore, is to resist being brought into contest or conflict. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Avoidance | Avoid, shun; steer clear of, keep clear of; fight shy of; keep one's distance, keep at a respectful distance; keep out of the way, get out of the way; evade, elude, turn away from; set one's face against; (oppose); deny oneself. |
Cowardice | Verb: quail; (fear); be cowardly; Adjective:, be a coward; Noun: funk; cower,skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run away; (avoid); show, the white feather. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expressions using "FIGHT SHY": fight shy of ♦ fight shy of smth. ♦ To fight shy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "FIGHT SHY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shmangem (circumvent, deflect, depart, deviate, diverge, dodge, duck, escape, eschew, fence, fend off, fight shy of, forbear, funk, give a wide berth, glance, jink, jump, keep one's distance, leapfrog, Miss, Parry, refrain, shirk, shun, sidestep, steer clear of, tergiversate, wander). (various references) | |
Arabic | تهرب (avoidance, be truant, beg the question, evade, fight shy of, fly in the face of, get in, hedge, malinger, shirk, shun, sidestep, skulk, swing the lead), تجنب (avert, avoid, avoidance, bypass, ditch, duck, eschew, eschewal, evade, evasion, fence, fight shy of, flee, get round, give a wide berth, hide, miss, obviate, outrun, parry, put off, save, shirk, shuffle, shun, shy, sidestep, steer clear of, waive). (various references) | |
French | tout faire pour éviter de faire (fight shy of), éviter (fight shy of). (various references) | |
Greek | πολεμώ δειλά (fight shy of). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kitér vmi elől (to avoid, to fight shy of sg, to shirk), húzódozik vmitől (to boggle at sg, to fight shy of sg, to sugar). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightfay yshay.(various references) | |
Romanian | se feri (beware, duck, elude, eschew, fight shy of smth., forbear, guard, shun), nu avea încredere în (discount, distrust, fight shy of smth., mistrust). (various references) | |
Russian | избегать кого-л. (fight shy of). (various references) | |
Spanish | esquivar (avoid, circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fight shy of, fudge, shirk, shun, sidestep). (various references) | |
Swedish | undvika (avoid, avoided, dodge, eschew, evade, fight shy of, flank, flee, fudge, get out of, keep away from, keep off), dra sig undan (draw away, draw back, fight shy of, hold back). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-h-h-i-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: fights, hights, shifty, thighs. | |
-3 letters: fight, fishy, gifts, highs, hight, shift, sight, thigh. | |
-4 letters: figs, fish, fist, fits, ghis, gift, gist, gits, high, hist, hits, sift, sigh, sith, this. | |
-5 letters: fig, fit, ghi, git, his, hit, ifs, its, shh, shy, sit, sty, thy, tis. | |
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