Words ending with shy

3 letter words ending with shy

shy — bashful; retiring.
coconut shy — a fairground stall in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off stands
once bitten, twice shy — You say 'once bitten, twice shy' when you want to indicate that someone will not do something a second time because they had a bad experience the first time they did it.
to fight shy — If you fight shy of something, you try very hard to avoid it.

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4 letter words ending with shy

-shy — -shy is added to nouns to form adjectives which indicate that someone does not like a particular thing, and tries to avoid it. For example, someone who is camera-shy does not like having their photograph taken.
ashy — of a pale greyish colour; ashen

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5 letter words ending with shy

bashy — (music) Intensely percussive.
bushy — Bushy hair or fur is very thick.
cushy — A cushy job or situation is pleasant because it does not involve much work or effort.
dashy — intended to draw attention; showy
dishy — Chiefly British. very attractive; pretty or beautiful: a couple of dishy fashion models.

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6 letter words ending with shy

blashy — very rainy
bolshy — If you say that someone is bolshy, you mean that they easily get angry and often do not do what other people want them to do.
brashy — loosely fragmented; rubbishy
brushy — like a brush; thick and furry
clashy — (obsolete, regional) wet; rainy.

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7 letter words ending with shy

cockshy — a target aimed at in throwing games
creeshy — greasy
gun-shy — frightened by the sound of a gunshot: a gun-shy bird dog.
splashy — making a splash or splashes.
squashy — easily squashed; pulpy.

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8 letter words ending with shy

bulrushy — made of or resembling bulrushes
nebbishy — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
rubbishy — full of rubbish: a rubbishy cellar.
squooshy — soft and squashy
unflashy — not flashy

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9 letter words ending with shy

flourishy — containing flourishes; fancy; like a flourish in nature
media-shy — reluctant to appear in the mass media

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10 letter words ending with shy

camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.

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11 letter words ending with shy

wishy-washy — lacking in decisiveness; without strength or character; irresolute.

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On this page, we collect all words that ending in SHY. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 63 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that ends in SHY that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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