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shy

/ʃaɪ/ verbe C2

En français : sursauter

  1. To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness. (intransitive)
  2. To jump back in fear. (intransitive) · The horse shied at the unexpected approach of a motor vehicle.
  3. To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling. (transitive) · to shy a stone· shy a slipper

He/she/it shies · Prétérit shied · Participe passé shied · Forme en -ing shying

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Dans la bibliothèque

“Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 27 · B2
“I’m shy on one word, lady.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 37 · C1
Matthew Cuthbert’s father, as shy and silent as his son after him, had got as far away as he possibly could from his fellow men without actually retreating into the woods when he founded his homestead.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 3 · C1
So far, the ordinary observer; an extraordinary observer might have seen that the chin was very pointed and pronounced; that the big eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; in short, our discerning extraordinary observer might have concluded that no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child of whom shy Matthew Cuthbert was so ludicrously afraid.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 14 · C1

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