Easily frightened; timid. / Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach. / Cautious; wary; suspicious. / (informal) Short, insufficient or less than. / Embarrassed.

(intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness. / (intransitive) To jump back in fear. / (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.

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.

A surname.

plural of Shy

plural of shying

present participle of shy

The act of one who shies or turns aside in fear.

present participle of shy away

to draw back in fear, cringe, back down