shy
noun · adjective · adverb · verbA1- Tiếng Việt:
- nhút nhát
nhút nhát. Họ từ SHY — danh từ: shyness; tính từ: shy; trạng từ: shyly.
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Easily frightened; timid.
- 2.
Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
He is very shy with strangers.
- 3.
Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- 4.
(informal)Short, insufficient or less than.
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.
- 5.
(UK, US)(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.
Pollsters need to remember the shy Tory factor.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
Courts might tend to shy from limiting Congress under such a vague standard.
Đồng nghĩa: shy away
- 2.
(intransitive)To jump back in fear.
The horse shied at the unexpected approach of a motor vehicle.
Đồng nghĩa: start, startle
- 3.
(transitive)To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
to shy a stone
shy a slipper
Đồng nghĩa: bowl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing
- 4.
(Scotland, intransitive, transitive)To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- 5.
(Scotland)To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
An act of throwing.
- 2.
A place for throwing.
coconut shy
- 3.
A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- 4.
In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- 5.
(Scotland)(Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- 6.
(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.
- 7.
(archaic)A gibe; a sneer.
Cụm từ thường dùng
shy about
giới từ đi kèm
feel shy
cụm thông dụng
shy away from
cụm thông dụng
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From Middle English shy (shy), from Old English sċēoh (shy), from *skeuh (shy, fearful), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (shy, fearful). Cognate with skjou shy, schuw shy, scheu shy, sky shy.