"Once ___, twice shy"
The crossword clue ""Once ___, twice shy"" is answered by BITTEN, a 6-letter entry. Used 14 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus.
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BITTEN
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BITTEN answer page.
Used 14 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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