Blushy vs Blusht - What's the difference?
blushy | blusht |
Suffused with blushes or blushlike hues.
* 1868? , Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
* 2007 , Bill Cameron, Lost Dog?
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(of a person) Embarrassed, blushing; feeling as though one might blush. (obsolete) (blush)
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.
To redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.
* Milton
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
To become red.
* Shakespeare
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
* Shakespeare
To express or make known by blushing.
* Shakespeare
To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
* T. Gray
The collective noun for a group of boys.
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)- I didn't feel blushy or quakey, but quite cool and only a little excited.
- Well, before you have to ask and get all blushy again, I'll take you home.
citation
blusht
English
Verb
(head)blush
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) blyscan . Cognate with Old Norse .Noun
(es)Derived terms
* blush is off the rose * at first blushVerb
(es)- To the nuptial bower / I led her blushing like the morn.
- 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.
- The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, / But stayed, and made the western welkin blush .
- To blush and beautify the cheek again.
- I'll blush you thanks.
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
Synonyms
* flushing * reddeningEtymology 2
1486 Dame Julia Barnes. The Book of St Albans.Noun
(es)- A blush of boys.