showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement; "a politician coy about his intentions"
A coy person is shy, or pretends to be shy, about love and sex. She is modest without being coy + coyly coy·ly She smiled coyly at Algie as he took her hand and raised it to his lips
modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures; "like a wild young colt, very inquisitive but very coy and not to be easily cajoled"
modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures; "like a wild young colt, very inquisitive but very coy and not to be easily cajoled" showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement; "a politician coy about his intentions" affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way