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Brushingly vs Blushingly - What's the difference?

brushingly | blushingly |

As adverbs the difference between brushingly and blushingly

is that brushingly is with a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly while blushingly is in an blushing manner; in a manner that evokes a blush.

brushingly

English

Adverb

(-)
  • With a brushing motion; barely touching; glancingly.
  • * 1958 , The Bedside "Guardian"
    • His defence was so compact and effortless, the feet always in position so swiftly and so correctly, and the bat so brushingly close to the front foot or the body that it was again as of old as if each ball had been forejudged uncannily by some cricketer's act of clairvoyance.

    blushingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an blushing manner; in a manner that evokes a blush.

    • Synonyms

    * flushingly