Shy

Definition: Shy

Shy

Adjective

1. Lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man".

2. Easily startled or frightened.

3. (informal) short; "eleven is one shy of a dozen".

4. Wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; "shy of strangers".

Noun

1. A quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman".

Verb

1. Start suddenly, as from fight.

2. Throw quickly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Literature

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SHY

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Synonyms: Shy

Avoidance

Shrink back; hang back, hold back, draw back; recoil; retire; (recede); flinch, blink, blench, shy, shirk, dodge, parry, make way for, give place to.

Adjective: unsought, unattempted; avoiding; Verb: neutral, shy of; (unwilling); elusive, evasive; fugitive, runaway; shy, wild.

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.

Adjective: coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate.

Deviation

Stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.

Fear

Hesitate; (be irresolute); falter, funk, cower, crouch; skulk; (cowardice); let " I dare not" wait upon "I would "; take fright, take alarm; start, wince, flinch, shy, shrink; fly; (avoid).

Modesty

Adjective: modest, diffident; humble; timid, timorous, bashful; shy, nervous, skittish, coy, sheepish, shamefaced, blushing, overmodest.

Regression

Verb: recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde, retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish, crawl; withdraw; rebound; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern; backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double, wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.

Verb: propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip.

Noun: propulsion, projection; propelment; vis a tergo; push, shove; (impulse); ejaculate; ejection; throw, fling, toss, shot, discharge, shy; launch, release.

Crosswords: Shy

That's because he's shy. (Throw Momma from the Train; writing credit: Stu Silver.)

Shy may not be glamorous or entertaining (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Sure, they both got it, but Chimpy gotta jump his nuts around to get it. The shy cheetah moves with total nonchalance, stickin' it to them in his sexy, slow strut (The Basketball Diaries; writing credit: Bryan Goluboff)

He's so shy. Next month he's doing the underwear billboard in Times Square (Ransom; writing credit: Cyril Hume; Richard Maibaum)

Two months shy of four years (Jackie Brown; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

I just want a shy guy (Shy Guy; performing artist: Diana King)

My my my, once bitten, twice shy babe (Once Bitten Twice Shy; performing artist: Great White)

I might be shy on the first date (Try Again; performing artist: Aaliyah)

DON'T DENY DON'T BE SHY JUST COME AROUND (I Know Where It's At; performing artist: All Saints)

Why you're so shy (Hottie; performing artist: Ashley Ballard)

I shot three shy thrushes. (references; author: unknown)

Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets. (references; author: unknown)

Six shy shavers sheared six shy sheep. (references; author: unknown)

Shy Guy (1947)

Much Too Shy (1942)

Dame Shy (1935)

Skirt Shy (1930)

Camera Shy (1930)

Once Bitten Twice Shy (performing artist: Great White)

Too Shy (performing artist: Kajagoogoo)

SHY ONE  (performing artist: Shirley Ellis )

He's So Shy (performing artist: The Pointer Sisters)

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Books

• Gun Shy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Shy Librarian (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Gun Shy (reference)

• Shy People (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Not Shy (reference)

• Therapy for the Shy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A Las Vegas white, male college student, had his leg amputated above the knee when doctors discovered osteogenic sarcoma while he was a teen. He is seen here in a home bedroom setting, playing his guitar. He is presently disease-free and in college. He plays tennis, but is still shy about dating. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

The Post has a shy at some recent spring happenings. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fantasies billow by shy lesbian fantasies ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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But Sylvie turned shy and frightened in a moment

He knelt among them, happy and shy.

Each one knew the other was shy, and became more shy in the knowledge

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Health

The child may be shy or quiet. (references)

As toddlers, they may be somewhat shy and reserved. (references)

Most are shy, quiet, and eager to please the teacher. (references)

Business

Medical institutions shy away from unknown brand names and foreign companies, believing that after purchasing the product they will be abandoned to face any unforeseen problems alone. (references)

Economic History

Poland

A potential customer may shy away from U.S. products because he/she fears ineffective servicing, simply due to distance, if the product requires repair or servicing. (references)

Switzerland

Trademark infringement is very rare in Switzerland -- street vendors are relatively scarce here, and even they tend to shy away from illegitimate or gray-market products. (references)

Ukraine

The growth is all the more remarkable due to the almost complete absence of external funding since 1998, and foreign investors increased tendency to shy away from the Ukrainian economy. (references)

Political Economy

South Africa

As a result of the June 1999 elections, the African National Congress, which won 66.35 percent of the vote, now holds 266 Assembly seats, one shy of a two-thirds majority and an increase of 14 seats from 1994. The Democratic Party (DP) increased its support from 1.7 percent in 1994 to nearly 10 percent in 1999. With 38 Assembly seats, the DP assumed the mantle of official opposition. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "shy": be shy ♦ become shy ♦ cocoanut shy ♦ coconut shy ♦ fight shy of ♦ fight shy of smth. ♦ have a shy at ♦ have a shy at doing smth. ♦ make shy ♦ make smb. shy ♦ once bit twice shy ♦ shy as to ♦ shy away ♦ shy away from ♦ shy of belief ♦ shy off ♦ shy person ♦ To fight shy. Additional references.

Beginning with "shy": Shy-Drager, Shy-Drager Syndrome, shy-eyed, shy-faced, shy-guy, shy-looking, shy-making.

Ending with "shy": publicity-shy, work-shy.

Afrikaans

bedees (abashed, self-conscious). (various references)

Albanian

zbythje (climbdown, kick, recession, recoil, repercussion), zbythem (blench, recoil, retreat, shrink), prapsem (back up, draw back, keep back, lose ground, recoil, rein back), i turpshëm (bashful, censurable, coy, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, humiliating, ignominious, ill at ease, indecent, infamous, inglorious, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, reserved, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, shameful, sheepish, timid, unhallowed, vile, villainous), i trembur (frightened, scared, windy), i strukur (mousey, mousy, poor spirited), i ndruajtur (misgiving, reserved, self conscious, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shrinking, tentative, timid, timorous, tremulant, tremulous), i druajtur (backward, bashful, chary, coy, diffluent, faint-hearted, mousey, mousy, self-effacing, timid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منعزل (bleak, downcast, hideaway, insulate, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesome, private, quiet, recluse, retired, secluded, separate, separated, solitary, withdrawn), ‏محتشم (bashful, chaste, coy, decent, decorous, demure, honest, modest, reserved), ‏حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake), ‏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, sidestep, steer clear of, waive), ‏سخرية (burlesque, derision, fling, gibe, humor, humour, irony, jeer, lampoon, laughter, mockery, persiflage, quip, ridicule, rub, sarcasm, scoff, scorn, snap, sneer, spoof, taunt, tee-hee, tehee, twit, wit), ‏عوزه كذا, ‏خجل (abash, bashfulness, be ashamed, blush, dash, diffident, efface oneself, make shy, mantle, redden, shame, shyness, timidity), ‏خجول (abashed, ashamed, backward, bashful, chary, coy, diffident, embarrassed, mean, modest, mousey, retiring, self conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, sheep's, shrinking, timid), ‏جفل (boggle, break cover, flinch, startle, wince), ‏جبان (apprehensive, chicken, chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, cur, faint, fearful, fearsome, funk, funky, heartless, lily livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, pusillanimous, scared, sheepish, sissified, sissy, spiritless, timid, timorous, tremulous, unmanly, weak-kneed), ‏إجفال (boggle, flinch, startle, wince), ‏أخرق (awkward, bungling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, impolitic, left handed, lubberly, lump, mad, maladroit, meaningless, nincompoop, oafish, ponderous, preposterous, senseless, uncouth, ungainly, unhappy, wooden), ‏بخيل (avaricious, cheeseparing, mean, miserly, skimpy, skinflint, spare, sparing, stingy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Bulgarian 

срамежлив (bashful, shamefaced), удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, butt, chop, clash, clump, counter, cut, dint, go off, hit, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, knock, pass, pelt, percussion, push, rap, shake, shock, smack, smash, strike, stroke, thrust, touch, turn, whack, whiplash, wipe), свенлив (bashful, blushing, maidenlike, maidenly, shamefaced), резервирам се (sit on the fence), хвърляне (cast, casting, delivery, draught, fling, heave, hurl, hurling, pitch, precipitation, projection, release, sling, throw, throwing, toss), който е изгубил, комуто не достига, опит (attempt, crack, essay, experience, experiment, go, go off, shot, stab, tentative, trial, try, whack, whirl), мятане (cast, fling, flounce, hurl, jactation, jactitation, projection, throw, toss), злонамерено подмятане, боязлив (chickenhearted, faltering, milk-livered, timorous, tremulous), плаша се (be timid, flinch, quail, scare), плашлив (fearful, flighty, nervy, skittish, spooky, timid, timorous, wild), дърпам се (balk, falter, hang back). (various references)

Chinese 

害羞 (blush). (various references)

Czech

podezíravý (distrustful, suspicious), plachý (skittish, timid, tremulous), ostýchavý (backward, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, prim, self conscious, shamefaced), opatrný (cagey, cagy, cannie, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, gingerly, guarded, prudent, safe, wary). (various references)

Danish

sky (abashed, afraid, cloud, self-conscious, timid). (various references)

Dutch

timide (abashed, self-conscious), blo (abashed, self-conscious), bevangen (abashed, defeat, self-conscious, win over), bedeesd (abashed, self-conscious). (various references)

Esperanto

sinĝenema, sinĝena (abashed, self-conscious), timida. (various references)

Faeroese

smæðin (abashed, self-conscious), blúgvur (abashed, chaste, self-conscious). (various references)

Farsi 

پرتاب (Hurl, Jaculation, Jet, Pitch, Pounce, Projection, Put, Shove, Throw, Tilt, Toss), پرت کردن (Hurl, Hurtle, Impinge, Jaculate, Launch, Throw, Toss), مواظب (Alert, Assiduous, Attendant, Attentive, Aware, Careful, Cautious, Heedful, Tooter, Watchful, Watchman), کمرو (Cagey, Chary, Chicken, Coy, Meticulous, Sheepish, Timid, Unassertive), ترسو (Caitiff, Gunshy, Meticulous, Pigeon, Pusillanimous, Shamefaced, Sheepish, Skittish, Timid, Timorous, Yellow), خجالتی (Coy, Shamefaced, Unco), ازمایش (Assay, Examination, Experience, Experiment, Temptation, Test, Trial, Try, Tryout), ازجاپریدن (Start), رموک , رم کردن (Boggle, Start). (various references)

Finnish

säikkyä (be frightened), vauhkoontua, vauhko (skittish), ujo (coy, self-conscious, timid), kaino (bashful, coy), ihmisarka (timid), hämillinen (ill at ease, self-conscious), hämi (ill at ease, self-conscious), arka (careful, faint-hearted, sensitive, sore, tender, timid, timorous). (various references)

French

timide (shamefaced, shrinking). (various references)

Frisian

ferlegen (abashed, self-conscious). (various references)

German

scheu (awe, cautious, fear, inhibition, shyly, shyness, timid, timidity, timidness, timorous), schüchtern (bashful, bashfully, coy, diffident, diffidently, mousey, mousy, sheepish, shyly, timid). (various references)

Greek 

ρίπτω (cast, dash, hail, hurl, pelt, project, throw), ρίψιμο (fling, throw), συνεσταλμένοσ (contracted, modest, timid), συνεσταλμένος (self conscious, timid), βολή (cast, fling, range, round, shot, throw), ντροπαλόσ (bashful, blushing, coy), ντροπαλός (bashful, coy, timid), πτοούμαι (quail, startle), ελλιπήσ (defective, imperfect, short, skimpy), άτολμοσ (diffident, niggling, sheepish, timid), ακοινώνητοσ (unsociable, unsocial), δειλόσ (bashful, boggler, chicken, chicken hearted, coward, dastardly, faint-hearted, fearful, lily livered, mealymouthed, pusillanimous, sheepish, skittish, skulker, timid, timorous, weak-kneed, white livered, yellow), δειλός (bashful, chicken-hearted, funk, tentative, timid, yellow). (various references)

Hebrew 

להרתע בבהלה (be startled), בישן (ashamed, bashful, coy, timid), בישני (diffident, shamefaced), נחבא אל הכלים (diffident, hiding oneself, retiring, timid), נכלם (ashamed, confused, embarrassed, shamefaced). (various references)

Hungarian

szemérmes (bashful, chaste, coy, prim, shamefaced), szégyenlős (bashful, diffident, hang-dog, shamefaced, sheepish, timid), megbokrosodás, kitörés (break out, break-out, burst, bursting, ejaculation, eruption, explosion, extrusion, flaw, gust, lunge, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, sally, shooting, sortie, spirt, tantrum), ijedős (fractious, jittery, milquetoastish, scary, skittish, timorous, weak-kneed), hajítás (cast, casting, fling, hurl, jet, pitch, pitching, projection, throw, toss), félénk (bashful, be shy, be timid, chicken hearted, chicken-hearted, coy, cringing, diffident, faint, faint-hearted, farouche, fearful, fearsome, nervous, poor spirited, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheepfaced, sheepish, timid, timorous, tremulous), dobás (cast, fling, jet, pitch, pitching, put, shot, sling, throw, throwing, toss, whirling), bátortalan (diffident, dispirited, faint, faint-hearted, fearsome, half hearted, half-hearted, low-spirited, poor spirited, pusillanimous, timid, timorous, unmanly). (various references)

Icelandic

feiminn (abashed, self-conscious). (various references)

Indonesian

pengejut (skittish), pemalu (diffident), malu-malu (timid), malu (bashful, mortification, shame). (various references)

Italian

timido (abashed, bashful, coy, diffident, faint, milksop, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, timid, timide). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

恥ずかしい (ashamed, embarrassed). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひっこみじあん (withdrawn), かもく (course, curriculum, silent, subject, Tuesdays and Thursdays), シャイ , はずかしい (ashamed, embarrassed), はにかみや (a very shy person), てれしょう (bashful), てれや (a very shy person). (various references)

Korean 

수줍어한 (Coy, sheepish). (various references)

Manx

orraghey (bolt, cast, charge, discharge, flight, round of ammunition, shot, sling, throw), nearildagh (ashamed, bashful, confused, coy, coy of girl, demure, retiring), jonseragh (buck, jolt, shying, wince, wincing), jonse (buck jump, jolt, wince), faitagh (cowardly, fearful, irresolute, shy person, timid, timid person). (various references)

Norwegian

sjenert (abashed, afraid, coy, self-conscious, timid), blyg (abashed, self-conscious). (various references)

Pig Latin

yshay.(various references)

Polish

zażenowany (abashed, self-conscious). (various references)

Portuguese

tímido (afraid, apprehensive, backward, bashful, blushing, diffident, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, fearsome, gawk, mousey, mousy, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, rabbity, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, timid, timorous, tremulant, tremulous, unassertive), acanhado (backward, demure, diffluent, gauche, hidebound, narrow, poky, poor-spirited, scary, scrimpy, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, skimpy, timid). (various references)

Romanian

timid (bashful, coy, diffident, hesitating, maiden, maidenly, milky, mousy, pigeon-hearted, retiring, self conscious, sheepish, sissy, timid, timorous), ruşinos (bashful, discreditable, disgraceful, disgracefully, ignoble, infamous, infamously, inglorious, maidenlike, milky, nefarious, opprobrious, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, sheepish, sky). (various references)

Russian 

робкий (bashful, chicken hearted, coward, diffident, faint, gingerly, gutless, milquetoast, mousey, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, poor-spirited, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, timid, timorous), шарахнуться (jump, start aside), конфузливый (bashful), отпрянуть (shrink), недоверчивый (distrustful, incredulous, mistrustful, trustless), застенчивый (bashful, blushful, blushing, coy, diffident, humble, self conscious, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shrinking, trembly, unassertive), бросок (burst of energy, cast, dash, fling, heave, jump, leap, pitch, shoot, sling, throw), бросать бросок робкий. (various references)

Scottish

saidealta , soidealta, ailleant. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stidljiv (bashful, blushful, coy, demure, shamefaced, timid, trembly), zazirati (jib, shrink, shrink from), zaziranje, zadužen (indebted), plašljiv (afraid, craven, fearful, fearsome, henhearted, hen-hearted, lily livered, mousey, mousy, scary, timid, tremulous), oskudan (barren, deficient, destitute, exiguous, meager, meagre, necessitous, needy, penurious, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, short, skimpy, spare, sparing, stingy, stringent, tight). (various references)

Spanish

vergonzoso (abashing, ashamed, bashful, diffident, discreet, disgraceful, humiliating, ignominious, shamefaced, shameful, shameless, sheepish, timide), tímido (afraid, bashful, blushing, capon, coy, diffident, faint-hearted, fearful, mousey, mousy, nervous, shamefaced, sheepish, timid, timorous, tongue tied). (various references)

Swedish

blyg (abashed, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, mousey, mousy, self-conscious, shamefaced, timid), skygga (jib, start), skygg (frightened, skittish, timid), kasta (bowl, cast, chuck, dart, dash, fling, flip, heave, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, lob, pelt, pitch, pitchfork, project, send, shoot, throw, toss). (various references)

Thai

ไม่ไว้ใจ, ซึ่งตกใจง่าย, ขาดแคลน (fail in, lacking, meager, meagre), ขี้อาย (bashful, sheepish), ขว้างทิ้ง. (various references)

Turkish

sakınmak (abstain, avoid, be careful not to, be cautious, be wary of, be wary of doing smth., beg, beware, cradle, eschew, evade, flee from, flinch, forbear, hang back, keep clear of, refrain, shuffle, shun, steer clear of, Stow), sıkılgan (bashful, embarrassed, retiring, self conscious, sheepish, timid), fırlatma (cast, chuck, fling, hurl, launching, pelt, projection, put, throw, throwing, toss), çekinmek (beware, boggle, chicken out, dread, fear, flee from, flinch, funk, get cold feet, hang back, have cold feet, hesitate, hold back, hold off, keep clear of, shrink, shun, wince, withdraw), ürkek (faint, fainthearted, fearful, gun-shy, jumpy, mousy, nervous, nervy, scary, shrinking, skittish, timid, timorous, tremulous), ürkek hayvan, ürkek kimse, ürkmek (balk at, be appalled, blench, boggle, dread, get a fright, have a fright, jump, lose one's nerve, quail, scare, start, startle, take fright, wince), alay etme (derision, jeering, making fun of, send up), atış (beat, burst, chuck, firing, fling, gunshot, inning, innings, pistol shot, projection, put, shoot, shooting, shot, throw), atma (banishment, bragging, cast, chuck, ejectment, elimination, fling, heave, heaving, hurl, inset, ouster, pelt, postpone, projectile, shoot, tell us another, throw, throwing, volley), çekingen (backward, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, distrustful of oneself, eunuch, faint, fainthearted, farouche, mousy, reserved, retiring, shrinking, standoffish, timid, timorous, uncommunicative, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn), eksik (defective, deficiency, deficient, gappy, imperfect, inadequate, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, insufficient, lacking, lame, less, minus, missing, missing part, out, ragged, scrimp, scrimpy, short, shortfall, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, wanting), utangaç kimse (gawk, Violet), fırlatmak (aim, blast off, bung, cast, cast away, catapult, chuck, chuck away, dart, eject, fling, hurl, hurtle, launch, pelt, project, send, shoot, shoot out, swing, throw, toss, whisk), ihtiyatlı (cagey, cautious, chary, deliberative, discreet, fabian, forethoughtful, guarded, heedful, politic, precautionary, provident, prudent, prudential, restrained, temperate, undemonstrative, vigilant, waiting, wary, well advised), irkilmek (be startled, blench, recoil, start, take alarm), korkan (afraid, afraid of, atremble, phobe), korkmak (be afraid, be afraid of, be appalled, be frightened, be scared of, dread, fear, flinch, funk, get a fright, get cold feet, have a fright, have cold feet, quail, scare, show the white feather, sweat blood, take fright), pısırık (diffident, jellyfish, pusillanimous, spiritless, unenterprising), utangaç (bashful, coy, diffident, embarrassed, gawky, mean, pudent, retiring, shamefaced, shame-faced, timid, timorous), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void). (various references)

Turkmen 

utanjaс (bashful), яygra (timid), gorkak (timid). (various references)

Ukrainian

сторонитися, соромливий (bashful, blushful, blushing, chary, coy, humble, ovine, pudent, self conscious, self-effacing, shamefaced, timid, trembly, willyard), кидок (cast, chuck, dart, fling, lunge, pitch, push, throw), відступати (back, back down, backtrack, blench, crawfish, deviate, digress, draw back, draw off, drop back, ebb, fall back, flinch, give ground, go back, recede, retreat, retrograde, stand away, stand back, walk backward), вибрик, норовистий (balky), недовірливий (defiant, diffident, distrustful, incredulous, mistrustful, nullifidian, trustless, watchful), не зважуватися (hesitate, scruple), лякати (affray, affright, appal, appall, consternate, daunt, fray, frighten, intimidate, panic, scare), полохатися, полохливий (coward, dastard, dastardly, funky, pavid, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, scarey, scary). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự tránh (avoidance, evasion, jink), sự nhảy sang một bên, nhút nhát (chicken-hearted, diffident, faint-hearted, hen-hearted, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor-spirited, rabbity, shily, shyly, spiritless, timid, timorous, wak-hearted, white-livered), khó thấy (blind), e thẹn khó tìm, bẽn lẽn (bashful, coy, demure, shamefaced, sheepish, shily, shyly, timid). (various references)

Welsh

swil (bashful), yswil (bashful, timid), cywilyddgar (bashful), anhyderus (diffident). (various references)

inpudentissimi, pudens, verecunda, verecundum. (various references)

timide. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "shy": shyer, shyers, shyest, shying, shylock, shylocked, shylocking, shylocks, shyly, shyness, shynesses, shyster, shysters. (additional references)

Words ending with "shy": ashy, bolshy, brashy, brushy, bushy, cockshy, cushy, dashy, dishy, fishy, flashy, fleshy, gushy, marshy, mashy, meshy, mushy, nebbishy, plashy, plushy, pushy, rubbishy, rushy, sloshy, slushy, splashy, squashy, squishy, squooshy, squushy, swishy, trashy, tushy, unflashy, varnishy, washy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chhy, Cyh, esh, Esphyr, ishy, ohy, qsy, Rhy, scy, sh, sha, shc, shey, shh, shhh, shiq, shiu, shl, shoy, shoyu, shp, shry, shu, Shya, Shyn, shyr, shys, Sihi, siy, sj, smy, sph, Sphi, sphy, sphyg, sth, suy, swy, sxy, sy, syh, Syha, syy, Zhi. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: sh.

+1 letter: ashy, hays, hoys, hyps, shay, syph, whys.

+2 letters: ayahs, bushy, chays, cushy, dashy, dishy, fishy, gushy, hasty, hissy, horsy, hoyas, husky, hussy, hylas, hymns, hypes, hypos, hyson, mashy, meshy, mushy, myths, psych, pushy, rushy, shady, shaky, shaly, shays, shily, shiny, showy, shoyu, shyer, shyly, sophy, sylph, synch, synth, syphs, tushy, washy, wheys, yechs, yodhs, yoghs.