shybie

English

Etymology

From shy +‎ -bie.

Etymology tree

Middle English shy

English shy

English newbie

English -bie

English shybie

Noun

shybie (plural shybies)

1. (informal) A shy person.
   • 2000 November 11, Al Leitch, “How to Spot Another Shybie?”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):

     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*?"

   • 2003 November 11, KC Carter, “How does a shybie get a public-facing job?”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):

     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).

   • 2006 April 13, JimSummers, “Which shybie are you?”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):

     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?