Etymology

shyly

S1H4Y4L1Y4

Today it means: In a shy manner. Full definition →

English shy ← Middle English shy
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle Englishshy
  2. Englishshy
  3. English todayshyly

From shy + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.