Coy

Expressions using "coy": be coy ♦ coy one's eyes out ♦ coy one's heart out ♦ Mc Coy. Additional references.

Beginning with "coy": coy-virgin, coy-yll.

Albanian

i turpshëm (bashful, censurable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, humiliating, ignominious, ill at ease, indecent, infamous, inglorious, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, reserved, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, shameful, sheepish, shy, timid, unhallowed, vile, villainous), i druajtur (backward, bashful, chary, diffluent, faint-hearted, mousey, mousy, self-effacing, shy, timid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محتشم (bashful, chaste, decent, decorous, demure, honest, modest, reserved, shy), ‏متظاهر بالخجل, ‏تصرف بحياء, ‏خفرة, ‏خجول (abashed, ashamed, backward, bashful, chary, diffident, embarrassed, mean, modest, mousey, retiring, self conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, sheep's, shrinking, shy, timid). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сдържан (aloof, buttoned up, chary, composed, continent, distant, modest, offish, remote, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, stand offish, taciturn, unaffable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, undramatic, unemotional, unsociable, unsocial), престорено свенлив. (various references)

Chinese 

腼腆, 怕羞 (bashful, shy). (various references)

Czech

upejpavý, stydlivý (bashful, cockshy, demure), ostýchavý (backward, bashful, demure, diffident, prim, self conscious, shamefaced, shy). (various references)

Farsi 

نازکن , کمرو (Cagey, Chary, Chicken, Meticulous, Sheepish, Shy, Timid, Unassertive), خجالتی (Shamefaced, Shy, Unco). (various references)

Finnish

ujo (self-conscious, shy, timid), kaino (bashful, shy), häveliäs (bashful, diffident, modest). (various references)

French

timide (self conscious), faire la quitte. (various references)

German

schüchtern (bashful, bashfully, diffident, diffidently, mousey, mousy, sheepish, shy, shyly, timid). (various references)

Greek 

σεμνότυφος, σεμνός (demure, modest, unassuming), ντροπαλόσ (bashful, blushing, shy), ντροπαλός (bashful, shy, timid). (various references)

Hebrew 

בישן (ashamed, bashful, shy, timid). (various references)

Hungarian

szemérmes (bashful, chaste, prim, shamefaced, shy), félénk (bashful, be shy, be timid, chicken hearted, chicken-hearted, cringing, diffident, faint, faint-hearted, farouche, fearful, fearsome, nervous, poor spirited, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheepfaced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous, tremulous). (various references)

Italian

timido (abashed, bashful, diffident, faint, milksop, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, timid, timide), schivo (averse, demure, reserved, retiring, shamefaced, shy), riservato (booked, classified, close, confidential, discreet, distant, engaged, offish, private, reserved, retiring, secret, secretive, standoffish, undemonstrative, undercover), modesto (chaste, demure, diffident, homely, humble, inconspicuous, lowly, moderate, modest, plain, quiet, self-effacing, temperate, unassuming, unpretentious). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

嬌羞 (charming and coy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうしゅう (assault, charming and coy, homesickness, instruction, nostalgia, training, violent attack). (various references)

Korean 

수줍어한 (sheepish, shy). (various references)

Manx

urree hene (coy of girl, reserved), nearildagh (ashamed, bashful, confused, coy of girl, demure, retiring, shy), er hene (coy of boy, reserved), beg-chaayntagh (coy of speech). (various references)

Norwegian

sjenert (abashed, afraid, self-conscious, shy, timid). (various references)

Pig Latin

oycay.(various references)

Portuguese

recatado (blushful, chaste, modest, plain), modesto (blushful, demure, homely, humble, lowly, modest, plain, self-effacing, shamefaced, unassertive, unassuming, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious). (various references)

Romanian

timid (bashful, diffident, hesitating, maiden, maidenly, milky, mousy, pigeon-hearted, retiring, self conscious, sheepish, shy, sissy, timid, timorous), sfios (backward, bashful, demure, faint-hearted, maiden, maidenlike, maidenly, meek, milky, mousy, retiring, self conscious, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous), reţinut (continent, dry, moderate, reserved, restrained, restrictive), feciorelnic (bashful, bashfully, immaculate, maidenlike, virginal, virginally). (various references)

Russian 

застенчивый (bashful, blushful, blushing, diffident, humble, self conscious, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shrinking, shy, trembly, unassertive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stidljiv (bashful, blushful, demure, shamefaced, shy, timid, trembly), povučen (aloof, demure, recluse, remote, reticent, retiring, undemonstrative, unobtrusive, withdrawn), izveštačen (affected, artificial, finical, histrionic, mincing). (various references)

Spanish

tímido (afraid, bashful, blushing, capon, diffident, faint-hearted, fearful, mousey, mousy, nervous, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous, tongue tied). (various references)

Swedish

pryd (demure, prude, prudish), blyg (abashed, bashful, demure, diffident, mousey, mousy, self-conscious, shamefaced, shy, timid). (various references)

Turkish

utangaç (bashful, diffident, embarrassed, gawky, mean, pudent, retiring, shamefaced, shame-faced, shy, timid, timorous), nazlı (delicate, rose water, spoilt, wayward), çekingen (backward, bashful, demure, diffident, distrustful of oneself, eunuch, faint, fainthearted, farouche, mousy, reserved, retiring, shrinking, shy, standoffish, timid, timorous, uncommunicative, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn). (various references)

Ukrainian

стриманий (abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, chary, chaste, checked, close, collected, composed, continent, demure, discreet, dry, guarded, low key, measured, offish, restrained, reticent, self controlled, self-composed, spartan, stand off, temperate, undemonstrative, well balanced), скромний (bashful, blushing, chaste, decent, demure, discreet, humble, lowly, maidenlike, maidenly, modest, nice, quiet, retiring, sedate, simple, spare, unobtrusive), соромливий (bashful, blushful, blushing, chary, humble, ovine, pudent, self conscious, self-effacing, shamefaced, shy, timid, trembly, willyard), відлюдний (ascetic, close, lonely, morose, obscure, offish, recluse, remote, retired, shut in, unsociable, unsocial), неприступний (arduous, impregnable, unassailable). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xấu hổ (ashamed, discreditable, hangdog), rụt rè (bashful, sheepish, timid), l� m dáng cách biệt, bẽn lẽn (bashful, demure, shamefaced, sheepish, shily, shy, shyly, timid), ít nói (close-mouthed, silent, taciturn, tight-lipped). (various references)

quietus. (various references)

rafedhrâi, xshnaoma. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "coy": coydog, coydogs, coyed, coyer, coyest, coying, coyish, coyly, coyness, coynesses, coyote, coyotes, coyotillo, coyotillos, coypou, coypous, coypu, coypus, coys. (additional references)

Words ending with "coy": decoy, overcoy, uncoy. (additional references)

Words containing "coy": cocoyam, cocoyams, decoyed, decoyer, decoyers, decoying, decoys. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Coy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acoy, cacy, cauy, caxy, caya, cayd, Ccny, cegy, cei, cey, ceye, choy, chy, cii, cjoy, cly, Cmyb, cmyc, coby, cogy, coh, coi, coie, coii, coiv, coiy, coj, comy, cooi, Cosyn, coty, cou, cov, covy, cowy, coxy, coye, coyi, coys, croxy, croy, csy, Cty, cuay, cuey, culy, cuny, cuy, Cuyo, cyd, cyf, Cyg, Cyh, cyy, Czyzk, ecoy, eoy, Ioy, kij, kiq, Komy, koy, Kroy, oci, ocky, oy, scoy, voy, yoy, zoy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: oy, yo.

+1 letter: cloy, coly, cony, copy, cory, cosy, cowy, coys, cozy, yock.

+2 letters: choky, cloys, coaly, cobby, cocky, colly, comfy, commy, coney, conky, cooey, cooky, cooly, corby, corky, corny, cosey, covey, cowry, coyed, coyer, coyly, coypu, cozey, crony, cyano, cyclo, cymol, cyton, decoy, ochry, octyl, pocky, rocky, uncoy, yocks, yogic, yonic.

+3 letters: blocky, botchy, bouncy, calory, canopy, canyon, carboy, chokey, choosy, choppy, cloddy, cloggy, clotty, cloudy, cloyed, coccyx, codify, cogway, coldly, colony, comedy, comely, comity, comply, conchy, coneys, convey, convoy, cooeys, cookey, coolly, corody, corymb, coryza, coseys, cosily, costly, cotype, county, coveys, cowboy, coydog, coyest, coying, coyish, coyote, coypou, coypus, cozeys, cozily, crayon, croaky, croupy, crowdy, crypto, cyborg, cyclos, cymoid, cymols, cymose, cymous, cytons, decoys, dioecy, echoey, flocky, glycol, hockey, idiocy, incony, jockey, jouncy, myopic, myotic, occupy, ochery, octyls, oocyst, oocyte, outcry, poachy, policy, pouchy, psycho, recopy, stocky, syncom, torchy, touchy, tycoon, wicopy, yapock, yocked, yoicks, zydeco.