Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of blushes.
Wiktionary
- adj. Full of blushes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of blushes.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset
- adj. of blush color
Etymologies
- blush + -ful (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He notices the look on her face and smiles in a demure, blushful way.”
“Convention used to portray the ardent groom and the blushful but receptive bride.”
“Edward lives up to the first billing, but Florence is a bit more than blushful; she is, to be precise, frigid and hysterical.”
“My sins are manifold and blushful, but callousness and arrogance are not among them (at least, I hope not).”
“For one long blushful year I had been one of his worshipping admirers.”
“In other words, at the end of the summer term they had plighted their troth, and, as Cleeves was a young man of substance, Rachel sported an engagement ring tricked out with rubies and was taken into Garchester to partake of ambrosia and the blushful Hippocrene far more often than some of her envious contemporaries thought was reasonable.”
“Sure many a May of ruby ray, as blushful on the brow,”
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
“The streets are like cloister-walks; as in Lucca, the plane is the sacred tree, and next to that flag of green on a silver staff, the poplar shows the city blushful in the spring and thrilling all a summer with the memory.”
“Very much a maiden still, notwithstanding her year and a half of troublous marriage, she jumped up directly she saw him, and, blushful, covered her neck.”
“But Hoddan got them back to the ship, in confusion tending toward the blushful.”
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