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Definition of Shiest
1. shy [adj] - See also: shy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shiest
Literary usage of Shiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"attempt to rise, but smiled a greeting to her venerable shiest. A then, after a
brief talk, in which she showed a perfect self-r«,— - sion, while the two ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"... which gave encouragement to the shiest,—an appeal to any wit or wisdom the
room .might hold to come out and show itself, which was rarely unheard,—and a ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1880)
"Fancy what a complete overturn there must have been when the very chamois, the
shiest and most unapproachable of wild creatures, descended from their ..."
4. An Old English grammar by Eduard Sievers (1903)
"Where gemination is kept, irregularities sometimes creep in subsequently : shiest
and s$I- lest, ..."
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