• Love-shy

    Alternative forms

    Origin

    love + shy

    Full definition of love-shy

    Adjective

    love-shy

    1. Ineffectual at courtship or attaining sexual intercourse; incel

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    Noun

    love-shy

    (plural love-shies)
    1. (very rare) A person, especially a man, who is ineffectual at courtship.
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