shybie

noun

Etymology

From shy + -bie. Etymology tree Middle English shy English shy English newbie English -bie English shybie

  1. inherited from *skeuhaz
  2. inherited from *skeuh
  3. inherited from sċēoh
  4. inherited from shy
  5. suffixed as shybie — “shy + bie

Definitions

  1. A shy person.

    • A less progressed shybie will have a more difficult time speaking and that would look pretty obvious. Or if the shybie answers nervously to certain questions, like "What girl do you *like*?"
    • Here's the problem: as a shybie I've somehow gravitated to a career with > computers (making bucketloads, so I could afford to pay for the priviledge^([sic]) of facing the public).
    • If you could create a kind of shybie Frankenstein monster of yourself built from the personality parts of other shybies who you are most similar to, which people would you be?

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA