Etymology

shying

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Today it means: The act of one who shies or turns aside in fear. Full definition →

English shy ← Middle English shy
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The story

  1. Middle Englishshy
  2. Englishshy
  3. English todayshying

From shy + -ing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.