shy
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Is shy a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.Examples: "By our count your shipment came up two shy of the bill of lading amount."; "It is just shy of a mile from here to their house."; "The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week."informal
2. (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.Examples: "Pollsters need to remember the shy Tory factor."UKUS
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.Examples: "Courts might tend to shy from limiting Congress under such a vague standard."Synonyms: shy awayintransitive
2. (intransitive) To jump back in fear.Examples: "The horse shied at the unexpected approach of a motor vehicle."Synonyms: start, startleintransitive
3. (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.Examples: "to shy a stone"; "shy a slipper"; "Then two or three boys laughed and sneered, and a big brutal fellow, who was standing in the middle of the room, picked up a slipper, and shied it at the kneeling boy, calling him a snivelling young shaver."Synonyms: bowl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dumptransitive
4. (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.Scotlandintransitivetransitive
5. (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.Scotland
noun (English)
1. (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.Scotland
2. (Scotland) 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.Scotland
3. (archaic) A gibe; a sneer.archaic
Definition source: Wiktionary