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Shying vs Blushing - What's the difference?

shying | blushing |

As verbs the difference between shying and blushing

is that shying is while blushing is .

As nouns the difference between shying and blushing

is that shying is the act of one who shies or turns aside in fear while blushing is the act of one who blushes; a blush.

As an adjective blushing is

showing blushes; rosy red.

shying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who shies or turns aside in fear.
  • * 1895 , Popular Science (volume 47, number 24, July 1895, page 342)
    • Not that there is anything really inexplicable in these odd directions of childish fear, any more than in the unpredictable shyings of the horse.

    blushing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who blushes; a blush.
  • * 1850 , Charles Delucena Meigs, Observations on certain of the diseases of young children (page 159)
    • In observing the phenomena presented in a case of tubercular meningitis or acute hydrocephalus, one will scarce ever fail of noticing the repeated blushings or suffusions of face in the now insensible or lethargic patient.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing blushes; rosy red.
    • the blushing bride
  • * Prior
    • The dappled pink and blushing rose.

    Derived terms

    * blushingly