Shy

Definition

shy 1 /ʃaÇ/ adj ( shyer, shyest ) ၁။ (က) ရွက္ေသာ။ ႐ိႈးတိုး ရွန္႔တန္႔ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a shy, retiring young man ❍ He was too shy to speak to her. ❍ The child isn't at all shy with adults. (ခ) (အမူအရာစသည္) ရွက္စႏိုး၊ ရွက္ဟန္ျပေသာ။ a shy look/smile. ၂။ လူျမင္မခံလိုေသာ၊ လူကိုလန္႔ေသာ (သားငွက္)။ ၃။ ~ of sth / doing sth ရြံ႕ေသာ။ တြန္႔ေသာ။ be shy of publicity ❍ We are not shy of taking hard decisions. ၄။ ~ (on/of sth/sb) ( US infml ) လိုေသာ။ We've plenty of wine, but we're shy on beer. ❍ We are still two players shy (of a full team). v ( pt, pp shied /ʃaÇd/ ) ~ (at sth) (ျမင္း)လန္႔ၿပီး ပတတ္ ရပ္သည္။ The colt shied at a paper bag blowing in the wind. ❏ -shy (forming compound adjs ) (အလုပ္စသည္) ေၾကာက္ ေသာ၊ ေရွာင္ဖယ္လိုေသာ။ camera-shy (ie unwilling to be photographed) ❍ You've been work-shy all your life. shyly adv : smiling shyly. shyness n [U]: try to overcome one's shyness. ❏ shy away from sth / doing sth [ PHRV ] ေရွာင္သည္။ ေရွာင္ရွားသည္။ I've always shied away from close friendships. shy 2 /ʃaÇ/ v ( pt, pp shied /ʃaÇd/) ( dated infml ) ပစ္သည္။ ေပါက္ သည္။ See also COCONUT SHY

Examples

1. Archie was shy and awkward.
2. I’d love to meet her but I’m too shy to introduce myself.
3. A shy grin
4. He gave Joanna a quick shy glance.
5. [shy about/of] : He is very shy about singing in public.
6. Kevin and Ashley smiled shyly at each other.