1. [adjective] Easily frightened; timid.
2. [adjective] Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
3. [adjective] Cautious; wary; suspicious.
4. [adjective] (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
5. [adjective] Embarrassed.
6. [verb] (intransitive) To avoid due to timidness or caution.
7. [verb] (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
8. [verb] (transitive) to throw sideways with a jerk; to fling
9. [noun] An act of throwing.
10. [noun] A place for throwing.
11. [noun] A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
12. [noun] In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
13. [noun] A quick throw; 'he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman'.
14. [verb] Start suddenly, as from fright.
15. [verb] Throw quickly.
16. [adjective] Lacking self-confidence; 'stood in the doorway diffident and abashed'; 'problems that call for bold not timid responses'; 'a very unsure young man'.
17. [adjective] Short; 'eleven is one shy of a dozen'.
18. [adjective] Wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things; 'shy of strangers'.
