man-shy
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Adjective
man-shy (comparative more man-shy, superlative most man-shy)
- Of a wild animal, wary of humans.
- 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 203:
- There was still game about, though it was man-shy now.
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