COYLY
What does "COYLY" mean?
In a shy, playfully evasive, or affectedly modest manner.
Meanings
- In a manner that is bashful, teasingly reticent, or pretending reluctance. She smiled coyly and refused to say who had sent the flowers.
Did you know?
- 'Coy' began as a word for 'quiet' or 'still': it shares a root with 'quiet', from Latin 'quietus', before drifting to mean bashfully reserved.
Word origin
Adverb of 'coy', from Old French 'coi' / 'quei' (quiet, still), from Latin 'quietus' (at rest) - the same root as 'quiet' - originally meaning calm before it came to mean shyly demure.
Remember it
COYLY hides COY + the L of a sly smile - someone keeping quiet, holding the secret just out of reach.
A little poem
She turned the question with a half-told grin-
the answer kept just out, the wanting in.
couplet
What it teaches
Withholding a little can hold attention longer than telling all at once.
Quick facts
What does COYLY mean?
In a shy, playfully evasive, or affectedly modest manner.
Is COYLY a valid word?
Yes — COYLY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is COYLY?
COYLY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does COYLY come from?
Adverb of 'coy', from Old French 'coi' / 'quei' (quiet, still), from Latin 'quietus' (at rest) - the same root as 'quiet' - originally meaning calm before it came to mean shyly demure.
What can COYLY teach us?
Withholding a little can hold attention longer than telling all at once.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.