CAGEY Meaning of CAGEY in English adj. (also cagy) (cagier, cagiest) colloq. cautious and uncommunicative; wary. Derivatives: cagily adv. caginess n. (also cageyness). Etymology: 20th-c. US: orig. unkn. Oxford English vocab. Оксфордский английский словарь. 2012