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— English words —
  • shy adj. Easily frightened; timid.
  • shy adj. Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
  • shy adj. Cautious; wary; suspicious.
  • shy adj. (Informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
  • shy adj. Embarrassed.
  • shy v. (Intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
  • shy v. (Intransitive) To jump back in fear.
  • shy v. (Transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
  • shy v. (Scottish) (transitive) or (intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially…
  • shy n. An act of throwing.
  • shy n. A place for throwing.
  • shy n. A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
  • shy n. In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
  • shy n. (Scottish) In soccer, a throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head. In shinty, the…
  • Shy prop.n. A surname.
— English word, defined in Dutch —
  • shy bijv. Verlegen, schuchter, bedeesd.
— English words, defined in French —
  • shy adj. Timide.
  • shy v. (Intransitif) Éviter par timidité ou par prudence.
— English words, defined in Spanish —
  • shy adj. Tímido, huraño.
  • shy adj. Asustadizo.
  • shy adj. Deficiente, insuficiente.
  • shy v. Respingar, asustarse.
  • shy v. Retroceder o hacerse a un lado por miedo.
  • shy s. La acción y efecto de retroceder o hacerse a un lado.
— English words, defined in Italian —
  • shy agg. Timido, vergognoso, ritroso, schivo.
  • shy agg. Riservato.
  • shy agg. Timido, che rivela timidezza.
  • shy agg. Timoroso, pauroso.
  • shy agg. Ombroso.
  • shy agg. Sospettoso, diffidente, guardingo (of verso).
  • shy agg. Che ha in meno.
  • shy s. Scarto, scartata.
  • shy s. Tiro lancio, getto.
  • shy s. Bersaglio, obiettivo.
  • shy s. (Colloquile) bersaglio, obiettivo.
68 English words from 15 English definitions

above act against approach aside avoid back back␣in ball calx caution Cautious College disinclined due due␣to Easily Embarrassed embarrassment especially Eton familiar fear fling for frightened from game hands head horse Informal insufficient intransitive jerk jump less less␣than lifting place point Reserved scored Scottish shinty Short sidelines sideways soccer start sudden surname suspicious than the throw throw␣in throwing timid timidness transitive two using wall wall␣game wall␣in wary with

6 English words from 20 foreign definitions

che par prudence Timoroso Tiro verso

39 foreign words from 20 foreign definitions

acción Asustadizo asustarse bedeesd bersaglio Deficiente diffidente efecto Éviter getto guardingo hacerse huraño insuficiente Intransitif lado lancio meno miedo obiettivo Ombroso pauroso por Respingar retroceder Riservato ritroso rivela scartata Scarto schivo schuchter Sospettoso Timide timidezza timidité Tímido vergognoso Verlegen

45 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

shye Shys Shyam shyer Shyla shyly shybie shyeah shyers shyest shyful shying shyish Shyanne shy␣away shybies shyings shylock Shylock shyness shyrdak shyster shy␣Tory shylocks Shylocks Shymkent shyrdaks shysters shylocked shynesses shystered shy␣Tories shy␣bladder shying␣away shylocking shystering shysterish shysterism shy␣away␣from shy␣bladders shy␣greenhood shy␣greenhoods shying␣away␣from shy␣bairns␣get␣noot shy␣bairns␣get␣nowt

114 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Koshys ashy␣tit Kashyap Morshyn unshyly vaishya Vaishya ashy␣tits fashying ISHYGDDT Kashyaps Luanshya manushya Netishyn vaishyas Vaishyas manushyas mishyphen mushy␣peas Saoshyant unshyness Welsh␣yard cockshying fight␣shy␣of fishy␣queen fishy␣wishy fresh␣yeast gas␣hydrate Keshishyan mishyphens vyshyvanka vyshyvanky Welsh␣yards wishy-washy ashy␣minivet bushy-tailed cushy␣number dishydrosis fishy␣queens fresh␣yeasts gas␣hydrates Karakashyan Keshishyans love-shyness mishyphened ooshy-gooshy rosh␣yeshiva squishyness vyshyvankas wish␣you␣well +64 words

137 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

ashy bashy bushy cushy dashy dishy fashy fishy gushy hashy hushy Koshy lashy leshy lushy mashy meshy mushy pushy rashy rushy seshy toshy tushy unshy washy blashy blushy bolshy brashy brushy cat-shy clashy crashy flashy fleshy flushy freshy gnashy gunshy gun-shy gun␣shy Irishy marshy Moishy mooshy nimshy nonshy pee-shy pee␣shy +87 words

3 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

hys Hys syh

31 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

ashy hays Hays heys Heys hoys Hoys HOYs Huys hwys hyes hyps HYPS hyps- Phys Rhys shay Shay shye Shys sygh SYHA syph syrh syth whys why's yahs Yehs yesh yush

18 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

hs Hs HS h's H's H.␣S. Hy sh SH S&H sh** Sy SY yh ys Ys y's Y's

53 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

phy Phy PHY say SBY Sey. SFY sha SHA SHC shd sh'd she She SHE s/he she- (s)he SHF SHG shh Shh SHH shi Shi SHM shm- sho Sho SHO sho' SHS sh**s sh*t Shu SHU shu' sky Sky -sky sly Sly sny soy Soy spy sry Sry sty swy thy Thy why

7 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

Hy sh SH S&H sh** Sy SY

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

shay Shay


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