shi - What does it mean?
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'shi' is a common misspelling of 'shy'
The correct spelling of 'shy' ends with the letter 'y'.
This incorrect spelling 'shi' ends with the letter 'i'.
'shi' Spelling Rule
In the early Modern English period, words ending in 'i' were changed to end in 'y'. For example, mani, veri, beauti and marri were changed to many, very, beauty and marry. This explains why some words containing a y, feature an i in their plural or past tense form. For example, try, tried; baby, babies; marry, marries.
Definition of 'shy' not 'shi'English
Adjective
( en-adj)
Easily frightened; timid.
* Jonathan Swift
- The horses of the army were no longer shy , but would come up to my very feet without starting.
Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- He is very shy with strangers.
* Arbuthnot
- What makes you so shy , my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.
Cautious; wary; suspicious.
* Boyle
- I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines.
* Sir H. Wotton
- Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their successors.
Short, insufficient or less than.
- By our count your shipment came up two shy of the bill of lading amount.
- It is just shy of a mile from here to their house.
Embarrassed.
See also
* bashful
* reserved
* timid
* demure
* coy
Usage notes
* Often used in combination with a noun to produce an adjective or adjectival phrase.
* Adjectives are usually applicable to animals (leash-shy'' "shy of leashes" or ''head shy "shy of contact around the head" (of horses)) or to children.
Synonyms
* See also
Antonyms
* brazen
* bold
* audacious
Derived terms
( terms derived using shy as suffix)
* -shy
* bird-shy
* boy-shy
* car-shy
* cat-shy
* camera-shy
* cover-shy
* girl-shy
* gun-shy
( rel-mid)
* hand-shy
* man-shy
* mouse-shy
* noise-shy
* people-shy
* water-shy
* woman-shy
* work-shy
( rel-bottom)
Verb
To avoid due to timidness or caution.
- I shy away from investment opportunities I don't understand.
To jump back in fear.
- The horse shied''' away from the rider, which startled him so much he '''shied away from the horse.
to throw sideways with a jerk; to fling
- to shy''' a stone; to '''shy a slipper
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Noun
( shies)
An act of throwing.
- (Thackeray)
* Punch
- If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 55:
- The game had started. A man was chasing the ball, it went out for a shy .
A place for throwing.
- coconut shy
A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
Derived terms
* coconut shy
English words similar to 'shi':sky, say, sei, si, ski, sai, shay, soy, shy, sway, sci, shi, suey, swy, swai
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