Rosy vs Blush - What's the difference?
rosy | blush |
Rose-coloured.
*
Resembling rose, as in scent of perfume.
Optimistic.
(slang, British) tea
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 nouns the difference between rosy and blush
is that rosy is (slang|british) tea while blush is an act of blushing or blush can be the collective noun for a group of boys.As an adjective rosy
is rose-coloured.As a verb blush is
to redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.rosy
English
Etymology 1
FromAdjective
(er)- If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
Etymology 2
From Cockney rhyming slang, "Rosie Lee".Alternative forms
* Rosie (more common spelling, as per the etymology)Noun
(-)- I wish a cup of Rosy .
- I fancy a cup of rosy lee.
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.