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maya | shy |

As verbs the difference between maya and shy

is that maya is while shy is to avoid due to timidness or caution.

As an adjective shy is

easily frightened; timid.

As a noun shy is

an act of throwing.

maya

English

Etymology 1

Self-designation of the Yucatec Mayas.

Proper noun

(wikipedia Maya) (en-proper noun)
  • A member of a Mesoamerican civilization that existed in and around Guatemala in the 4th to 10th centuries.
  • A descendant of these people.
  • Any of the Mayan languages, such as and Yucatec.
  • See also

    * Aztec * Inca * Mesoamerica * Olmec * Toltec

    Etymology 2

    From Maria, ultimately from (etyl), and from Maia, from (etyl).

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • of modern usage.
  • * 1988 , Picasso, Creator and Destroyer , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671454463, page 240
  • When her little friends asked her what her name was, her father replied that it was Conchita - his diminutive for Maria de la ConcepciĆ³n. "Con-what?" they would ask again, aware, apparently, that con'' in French is a fool, an idiot. So her parents started calling her Maria, which from the little girl's lips soon began to sound like Maya'''. "'''Maya'''!" exclaimed her father. "It's perfect. It means the greatest illusion on earth." So '''Maya''' it was from then on - ' Maya Walter.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • In Sanskrit, illusion; God's physical and metaphysical creation (literally, "not this").
  • used in India.
  • * 1993 , A Suitable Boy , Phoenix House, ISBN 1897580207, page 891
  • Eventually, Pran and Savita decided by correspondence on Maya'. Its two simple syllables meant, among other things: the goddess Lakshmi, illusion, fascination, art, the goddess Durga, kindness, and the name of the mother of Buddha. It also meant: ignorance, delusion, fraud, guile, and hypocrisy; but no one who named their daughter ' Maya ever paid any attention to those pejorative possibilities.
    - - - 'Why ever not, Ma?' said Meenakshi.'It's a very Bengali name, a very nice name.'

    Anagrams

    * ----

    shy

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Easily frightened; timid.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • The horses of the army were no longer shy , but would come up to my very feet without starting.
  • Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
  • He is very shy with strangers.
  • * Arbuthnot
  • What makes you so shy , my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.
  • Cautious; wary; suspicious.
  • * Boyle
  • I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines.
  • * Sir H. Wotton
  • Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their successors.
  • Short, insufficient or less than.
  • By our count your shipment came up two shy of the bill of lading amount.
    It is just shy of a mile from here to their house.
  • Embarrassed.
  • See also

    * bashful * reserved * timid * demure * coy

    Usage notes

    * Often used in combination with a noun to produce an adjective or adjectival phrase. * Adjectives are usually applicable to animals (leash-shy'' "shy of leashes" or ''head shy "shy of contact around the head" (of horses)) or to children.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * brazen * bold * audacious

    Derived terms

    (terms derived using shy as suffix) * -shy * bird-shy * boy-shy * car-shy * cat-shy * camera-shy * cover-shy * girl-shy * gun-shy * hand-shy * man-shy * mouse-shy * noise-shy * people-shy * water-shy * woman-shy * work-shy

    Verb

  • To avoid due to timidness or caution.
  • I shy away from investment opportunities I don't understand.
  • To jump back in fear.
  • The horse shied''' away from the rider, which startled him so much he '''shied away from the horse.
  • to throw sideways with a jerk; to fling
  • to shy''' a stone; to '''shy a slipper

    Noun

    (shies)
  • An act of throwing.
  • (Thackeray)
  • * Punch
  • If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.
  • * 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 55:
  • The game had started. A man was chasing the ball, it went out for a shy .
  • A place for throwing.
  • coconut shy
  • A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
  • In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
  • Derived terms

    * coconut shy