Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat coy or reserved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat coy or reserved.
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- adjective Somewhat
coy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She looked up, smiled a coyish smile, lifted a shoulder, said, “Oooooo, you're a big one.”
Letting go James Lloyd Davis 2011
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You're the one bullshitting me right now, he retorted with a coyish smile on his face.
Golgi Apparatus Robert David Moseley 2012
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After sending him my lecture package, he wrote me back a vague and coyish message saying "It's great!" but that I was missing some important points and to meet him at 7: 30am to go over the Revised Finalized Package Please, Thanks.
vaneigem Diary Entry vaneigem 2001
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Desert maiden, skipping like a young roe over the mountains, in untutored innocence or coyish bashfulness.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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The dancers advanced towards them with shy and coyish gesture, and then swung round and round to the opposite side of the circle in a sort of time kept by the beating of the drum.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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The track is reminiscent of Norah Jones 'loungey take on vocal jazz, though Triana adds hints of melodrama in the places Jones might go for whimsy or coyish flirtations.
PopMatters 2010
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