Coyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /kɔɪ/
• 韻: -ɔɪ
• Homophone: koi

語源 1

From 中期英語 coy, from Old French coi, earlier quei (“quiet, still”), from Latin qu(i)ētus (“resting, at rest”). Doublet of quit, quiet, quite, and quietus.

形容詞

coy (comparative coyer, superlative coyest)

1. (dated) Bashful, shy, retiring.
2. (archaic) Quiet, reserved, modest.
3. Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish.
4. Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way.
   • 1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers:

     The ill-bred miss, the bird-brained Jill, / May simper and be coy at will; / A lady, sir, as you will find, / Keeps counsel, or she speaks her mind, / Means what she says and scorns to fence / And palter with feigned innocence.

5. Soft, gentle, hesitating.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:

     Enforced hate, / Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee.

派生語

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動詞

coy (third-person singular simple present coys, present participle coying, simple past and past participle coyed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To caress, pet; to coax, entice.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, / While I thy amiable cheeks do coy.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To calm or soothe.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To allure; to decoy.
   • 1635, Edward Rainbowe, Labour Forbidden, and Commanded. A Sermon Preached at S Pauls Church, September 28. 1634., London: Nicholas Vavasour, page 29:

     For now there are ſprung up a wiſer generation in this kind, who have the Art to coy the fonder ſort into their nets

語源 2

Compare decoy.

名詞

coy (plural coys)

1. A trap from which waterfowl may be hunted.

語源 3

Abbreviation of company.

名詞

coy (plural coys)

1. (military) A company

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “coy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “coy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• CYO