Shady
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From shade + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian skaadich, skaddich(“shady”), German schattig(“shady”).
etymonline
shady (adj.)
"affording shade," 1570s; "protected by shade," 1590s; from shade (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "disreputable" (1862) probably is from earlier university slang sense of "of questionable merit, unreliable" (1848). Related: Shadily; shadiness. Old English had sceadlic "shady, 'shadely.'"