A short investigation of "shy"

Coy? Unforthcoming?
Bashful? Cautious? Circumspect?
Well, I've not seen it!

Can be considered...
Restrained? Reticent? Sheepish?
But no, not so much!

Undemonstrative?
Lacking, meek, modest, reserved...
Not by any means!!!

Definitions of shy include the following...perhaps this is what is meant...

Shy

Shy\, n. 1. A sudden start aside, as by a horse.

2. A side throw; a throw; a fling. --Thackeray.

If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody. --Punch.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.