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blushy | blusht |

As an adjective blushy

is suffused with blushes or blushlike hues.

As a verb blusht is

past tense of blush.

blushy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Suffused with blushes or blushlike hues.
  • * 1868? , Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
  • I didn't feel blushy or quakey, but quite cool and only a little excited.
  • * 2007 , Bill Cameron, Lost Dog?
  • Well, before you have to ask and get all blushy again, I'll take you home.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 19, author=Holland Cotter, title=Treasure Hunt for Grown-Ups With Money, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=As it happens, the blushy tone does wonders for tallowy New York winter complexions, and, more important, it sets off to advantage the booth’s prize display: a 1901 portrait miniature of the future Kings George VI and Edward VIII, at ages 6 and 7 respectively. }}
  • (of a person) Embarrassed, blushing; feeling as though one might blush.
  • blusht

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (blush)

  • 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

    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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