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blush | salmon |

As a noun blush

is an act of blushing or blush can be the collective noun for a group of boys.

As a verb blush

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

As a proper noun salmon is

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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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    salmon

    English

    (wikipedia salmon)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily.
  • A yellowish pink colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout )
  • * 1992 , The Shamen (band), (Ebeneezer Goode) (song)
    • Got any salmon ?

    Synonyms

    * (fish) lax * (smoked salmon) lox * (colour) salmon pink

    Derived terms

    * Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ) * (Salmo salar ) * beaked salmon () * (Salmo salar ) * (Oncorhynchus nerka ) * ) * (Salmo salar ) * ) * chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) * chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta ) * coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch ) * Danube salmon (Hucho hucho ) * ) * dog salmon (Oncorhynchus keta ) * (Salmo salar ) * ) * humpback salmon () * (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) * (Oncorhynchus nerka ) * land-locked salmon (Salmo salar ) * Nova Scotia salmon * (Salmo salar ) * (Oncorhynchus spp.) * ) * (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) * (Oncorhynchus nerka ) * rock salmon * salmon and trout * (Cacatua moluccensis ) * salmon day * (Eucalyptus spp.) * salmon ladder * salmon leap * salmon peel * ) * ) * salmon trout (Salmo gairdneri ) * ) * salmonberry () * salmonid * (Salmo salar ) * silver salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch'', ''Salmo salar ) * smoked salmon * (Oncorhynchus nerka ) * spring salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) * (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha )

    Related terms

    * samlet

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a yellowish pink colour.
  • * 1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 155:
    • Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.

    See also

    * * alevin * anadromous * arctic char * blackfish * coarse fish * gravlax * grilse * kelt * kipper * lox * parr * redfish * smolt * sockeye * trout * yolk fry

    Anagrams

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