Distant and shy.
1857. As the coy country damsel says: ‘There is danger of acting offish too long and losing the fish when he is actually bitten.’—Knick. Mag., xlix. 447 (May).
1873. I am naturally pretty offish and retirin’ in my ways with strange men folks.—Marietta Holley, ‘My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet’s,’ p. 289 (Farmer).
