coy

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Affectedly and often flirtatiously shy or modest.
• adjective Characterized by or suggesting such shyness or modesty.
• adjective Unwilling to make a commitment or divulge information.
• adjective Tending to avoid people and social situations; reserved.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Quiet; still.
• Manifesting modesty; shrinking from familiarity; bashful; shy; retiring.
• Disposed to repel advances; disdainful.
• Synonyms Shrinking, distant, bashful, backward, diffident, demure.
• noun A stroke or noise made to coy or quiet an animal, as a horse; a soothing sound or utterance.
• noun A decoy. See decoy, n.
• To quiet; soothe.
• To caress with the hand; stroke caressingly.
• To coax; allure; entice; decoy. See decoy, v.
• To be coy; behave with coyness or bashfulness; shrink from familiarity: with an indefinite it.
• To make difficulty; be slow or reluctant.
• noun A cage or pen for lobsters.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb obsolete To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity.
• intransitive verb obsolete To make difficulty; to be unwilling.
• transitive verb obsolete To allure; to entice; to decoy.
• transitive verb To caress with the hand; to stroke.
• adjective obsolete Quiet; still.
• adjective Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry.
• adjective Soft; gentle; hesitating.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A trap from which waterfowl may be hunted.
• adjective dated Bashful, shy, retiring.
• adjective archaic Quiet, reserved, modest.
• adjective Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish.
• adjective Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way.
• adjective Soft, gentle, hesitating
• verb transitive (obsolete) To caress, pet; to coax, entice
• verb transitive (obsolete) To calm or soothe

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement
• adjective modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures
• adjective affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way