Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness. · To jump back in fear. · To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling. · To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
Easily frightened; timid. · Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach. · Cautious; wary; suspicious. · Short, insufficient or less than.
An act of throwing. · A place for throwing. · A sudden start aside, as by a horse. · In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
From Middle English shy (“shy”), from Old English sċēoh (“shy”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeuh (“shy, fearful”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“shy, fearful”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian skjou (“shy”), Dutch schuw (“shy”), German scheu (“shy”), Danish sky (“shy”).
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