Chary (adj)
chair-ee
Cautious, wary, or timid.
before 1000; Middle English; Old English cearig sorrowful ( c ( e ) ar ( u ) care + -ig -y 1 ); cognate with Old Saxon karag, Old High German karag ( German karg scanty, paltry)
Example sentences
“She was a rescue dog with a chary nature, who knows what she’d been through”
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