English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "coy" is:(adj.) 1. skaam, beskeie of terughoudend op 'n flirterige of speelse manier, dikwels om aantrekliker te lyk of om te vermy om te voorwaarts te wees of vet. 2. onwillig om 'n verbintenis aan te gaan of inligting bekend te maak, dikwels op 'n manipulerende of geheimsinnige manier.Voorbeeldsinne:Sy het hom 'n vriendelike glimlag gegee en weggekyk.Hy was traag oor sy planne vir die naweek.Die politikus was terughoudend oor sy standpunt oor die omstrede kwessie.

Sentence Examples

  1. Workers chipping stone away night and day, tunnels crawling to a meeting like coy lovers.
  2. Then coy dogs, coyotes, and even condors in California.
  3. Ungrateful, cruel, coy, and fair, Was she that drove him to despair, And Love hath made her his ally For spreading wide his tyranny.
  4. Audrey ducked her head at his voice and gave him her best coy look then rolled over demanding a belly rub.
  5. While these questions and answers were proceeding, the fair Zoraida, who had already perceived me some time before, came out of the house in the garden, and as Moorish women are by no means particular about letting themselves be seen by Christians, or, as I have said before, at all coy, she had no hesitation in coming to where her father stood with me moreover her father, seeing her approaching slowly, called to her to come.
  6. Mary had so far played coy about the purpose of our outing and the jostling crowd and rancid smells darkened my mood.
  7. Anytime he was trying to be coy or tell a joke, his adorable dimples that ate his freckles would give his incoming pun away.
  8. Oh, could I be released from Amadis By exercise of such coy chastity As led thee gentle Quixote to dismiss!
  9. But he gave a coy smile and used his knees as armrests to stand.
  10. Sometimes the answers leapt out at him, but at other times they were coy.