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head shy

head shy adjective: disposed to evade having one's head touched.

Adjective

head shy (comparative more head shy, superlative most head shy)

  1. Disposed to evade having one's head touched.
    • And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over.1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, →LCCN, →OL
    • But let's say the horse is neither head shy, nor rank, and you can bridle him without fuss.1975 September, Bill Tarrant, “The gun dog horse: part II”, in Field & Stream, volume 80, number 5, →ISSN, page 129

Forms of head shy

comparativemore head shy
superlativemost head shy
alternative formheadshy
alternative formhead-shy

Questions about head shy

What does head shy mean?
Head shy means disposed to evade having one's head touched.
What part of speech is head shy?
Head shy is an adjective.

Words near head shy in the dictionary

  1. head seas
  2. head shop
  3. head shops
  4. head shunt
  5. head shunts
  6. head shy
  7. head south
  8. head space
  9. head spaces
  10. head start
  11. head starts

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