shyの意味・使い方・発音

shy

英 [ʃaɪ] 美 [ʃaɪ]

恥ずかしがり屋, 恥ずかしがり屋, 恐れっぽい.

古英語のsceoh, shyから、原ゲルマン語*skiuhwaz, shy, fearfulから、おそらくPIE*skeu, hide, coverから、語源はhide,shunと同じ。

恥ずかしがって投げる。

語源は不明だが、おそらくゲーム名のココナッツ?シャイによく見られるシュート?スラング形から。

shy: shy: Shy ‘timid, reserved’ [OE] goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *skeukhwaz ‘afraid’ (source also of English eschew and skew). It is generally assumed that shy ‘throw’ [18] must have come from it, but the exact nature of the relationship between the two words is not clear. The original application of the verb seems to have been specifically to the throwing of sticks at chickens, and it has been suggested, not altogether convincingly, that its use alludes to the notion of a ‘shy’ cockerel that refuses to fight (there was an 18th- and early 19th-century slang term shy-cock which meant ‘cowardly person’).
=> eschew, skew
shy (adj.): late Old English sceoh "timid, easily startled," from Proto-Germanic *skeukh(w)az "afraid" (cognates: Middle Low German schüwe, Dutch schuw, German scheu "shy;" Old High German sciuhen, German scheuchen "to scare away"). Uncertain cognates outside Germanic, unless in Old Church Slavonic shchuti "to hunt, incite." Italian schivare "to avoid," Old French eschiver "to shun" are Germanic loan-words. Meaning "lacking, short of" is from 1895, American English gambling slang. Related: Shyly; shyness.
shy (v.1): "to throw (a missile) with a jerk or toss," 1787, colloquial, of unknown origin and uncertain connection to shy (adj.). Related: Shied; shying.
shy (v.2): "to recoil," 1640s, from shy (adj.). Related: Shied; shying.

1. She was a shy ，delicately pretty girl with enormous blue eyes.: 彼女はシャイで美しい女の子で、大きな青い目をしている。

2.I was something of a wallflower ; I was terribly shy .: 私はとても恥ずかしいので、壁の花です。

3.He 's quiet and a bit on the shy side.

彼は静かで少し恥ずかしがり屋だ。

4.The publicity y- shy singer spoke frankly in his first interview in three years.: この人前に出るのが好きではない歌手は、3年ぶりのインタビューで思いを語った。