shy-schüchtern: meaning, definitions and translations
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What is shy?shy is schüchtern
What is schüchtern?
Easily startled; timid.
Leicht erschrocken; schüchtern.
Drawing back from contact or familiarity with others; retiring or reserved.
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Marked by reserve or diffidence: a shy glance.
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Distrustful; wary: shy of strangers.
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Not having paid an amount due, as one's ante in poker.
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Short; lacking: Eleven is one shy of a dozen.
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To move suddenly, as if startled; start.
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To draw back, as from fear or caution; recoil.
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A sudden movement, as from fright; a start.
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To throw (something) with a swift motion; fling.
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To throw something with a swift motion.
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A quick throw; a fling.
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Informal A gibe; a sneer.
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Informal An attempt; a try.
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