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Blush vs Bronzer - What's the difference?

blush | bronzer |

As nouns the difference between blush and bronzer

is that blush is an act of blushing or blush can be the collective noun for a group of boys while bronzer is a cosmetic product intended to give the skin a temporary bronzed colour resembling a suntan.

As a verb blush

is to redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.

As an adjective bronzer is

(rare) (bronze).

blush

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) blyscan . Cognate with Old Norse .

Noun

(es)
  • An act of blushing.
  • (uncountable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. Confer rouge.
  • A color between pink and cream.
    • Derived terms
    * blush is off the rose * at first blush

    Verb

    (es)
  • To redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.
  • * Milton
    • To the nuptial bower / I led her blushing like the morn.
  • * 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
    • But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush . He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.
  • To become red.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, / But stayed, and made the western welkin blush .
  • To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To blush and beautify the cheek again.
  • To express or make known by blushing.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll blush you thanks.
  • To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
  • * T. Gray
    • Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
    Synonyms
    * flushing * reddening

    Related terms

    * erythrophobia (fear of blushing)

    Etymology 2

    1486 Dame Julia Barnes. The Book of St Albans.

    Noun

    (es)
  • The collective noun for a group of boys.
    • A blush of boys.
    Usage notes
    This is probably a fanciful expression and is not in common use.
    References
    * Noun sense: 1986 Oxford Reference Dictionary: Appendix

    Anagrams

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    bronzer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cosmetic product intended to give the skin a temporary bronzed colour resembling a suntan.
  • * 1981 , Mario Badescu, Mario Badescu's Skin Care Program for Men
    • Bronzers , you see, contain alcohol, which can't help but be drying to the skin.
  • * 1984 , Toni Stabile, Everything you want to know about cosmetics
    • Some men were turning up with their faces covered with "bronzers " that made them look jaundiced, mottled terra cotta, or muddy brown.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (rare) (bronze)
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