shyとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ʃaɪ/
• 韻: -aɪ
• Homophone: Chi

形容詞

shy (comparative shier または shyer または more shy, superlative shiest または shyest または most shy)

shy (2) woman

1. Easily frightened; timid.
   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

     The horses of the army, and those of the royal stables, having been daily led before me, were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting.

2. Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.

   He is very shy with strangers.

   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     What makes you so shy, my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.

3. Cautious; wary; suspicious.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle , Some Considerations Touching Experimental Essays in General

     I am very shy of building any thing of moment upon foundations

   • 1641, Henry Wotton, The Characters of Robert Devereux and George Villiers

     Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their successors.

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.

   • 2018 December 1, Tom Rostance, “Southampton 2 - 2 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     United move seventh - still six points off a Champions League place and a massive 16 shy of the lead held by rivals Manchester City.

5. Embarrassed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

使用する際の注意点

• Often used in combination with a noun to produce an adjective or adjectival phrase.
• Adjectives are usually applicable to animals (leash-shy "shy of leashes" or head shy "shy of contact around the head" (of horses)) or to children.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:shy

反意語

• audacious
• bold
• brazen
• gregarious
• extroverted
• outgoing

派生語

• shy bairns get nowt, shy bairns get noot

参考

• bashful
• reserved
• timid
• demure
• coy

動詞

shy (三人称単数 現在形 shies, 現在分詞 shying, 過去形および過去分詞形 shied)

1. (intransitive) To avoid due to timidness or caution.

   I shy away from investment opportunities I don't understand.

2. (intransitive) To jump back in fear.

   The horse shied away from the rider, which startled him so much he shied away from the horse.

3. (transitive) to throw sideways with a jerk; to fling

   to shy a stone

   shy a slipper

   • 1868, Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (chapter VI)

     "I was thinking, sir," I answered, "that I should like to shy the Diamond into the quicksand, and settle the question in that way."

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of T. Hughes to this entry?)

名詞

shy (複数形 shies)

1. An act of throwing.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Thackeray to this entry?)

   • 1846, Punch Volume 10

     If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.

   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 55:

     The game had started. A man was chasing the ball, it went out for a shy.

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.

派生語

• coconut shy
• have a shy