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bashful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bashful \Bash"ful\ (b[a^]sh"f[.u]l), a. [See Bash.]
Abashed; daunted; dismayed. [Obs.]
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Very modest, or modest to excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.
Syn: Diffident; retiring; reserved; shamefaced; sheepish.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, with -ful + baishen "to be filled with consternation or dismay" (mid-14c.), from Old French baissier "bring down, humiliate" (see abash). An unusual case of this suffix attached to a verbal stem in the passive sense. Related: Bashfully; bashfulness (1530s).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (rfc-sense) inclined to avoid notice 2 reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
WordNet
adj. self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound
disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful) [syn: blate]
Wikipedia
Bashful is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd. A copy exists in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Bashful may refer to:
- Bashful (film), a 1917 American film
- Bashful (character), a character from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Bashful elephant, a stalagmite in Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, US
- Bashful Peak, a mountain in Alaska, US
- Boleslaus the Bashful (1226-1279), a Polish prince
- Bashful (Pac-Man), one of the ghosts in the arcade game Pac-Man (original name Kimagure
Usage examples of "bashful".
Seregil frowned down at the two of them, irked to think that Alec would be too bashful to take advantage of a proper bed.
It consisted of a selection of original aphorisms by an anonymous gentleman, who in this bashful manner gave a bruised heart to the world.
A little man in the office downtown, all kind of bashful and double-talky, said nobody would want to embarrass General Scott or Miss Segnier, and what would she think if they let her deduct fifteen hundred and pay taxes on the rest?
The Tarheel cop could sometimes look bashful and reserved but that was never the case when confronting a suspect.
Her artlessness, her vivacity, her eager curiosity, and the bashful blushes which spread over her face whenever her innocent or jesting remarks caused me to laugh, everything, in fact, convinced me that she was an angel destined to become the victim of the first libertine who would undertake to seduce her.
He is apprenticed to the miller, whatever it was, and is a good bashful fellow, always falling in love with somebody and being ashamed of it.
The two ladies, of course, fluttering toward her with every demonstration of hospitality, drew her into the room, while Bernard proceeded to greet the Captain, who advanced with a certain awkward and bashful majesty, almost sweeping with his great stature Mrs.
All these thoughts, worthy only of a weak and bashful jealousy, brought no conclusive decision.
Nobel Laureate if the probabilities collapsed properly onto their just attractor, peered owlishly at Dexter with the sweet bashful hopefulness of every teenage wannabee sf writer who had ever babbled his creative heart out to him at a con suite party or across an autograph session table.
Her artlessness, her vivacity, her eager curiosity, and the bashful blushes which spread over her face whenever her innocent or jesting remarks caused me to laugh, everything, in fact, convinced me that she was an angel destined to become the victim of the first libertine who would undertake to seduce her.
They were left bashful to endure the gaze and the murmurs of the other ministrants.
All these thoughts, worthy only of a weak and bashful jealousy, brought no conclusive decision.
His hair, rising from the parting to the right of his forehead, in what his admiring Lady Blandish called his plume, fell away slanting silkily to the temples across the nearly imperceptible upward curve of his brows there--felt more than seen, so slight it was--and gave to his profile a bold beauty, to which his bashful, breathless air was a flattering charm.
With mysterious gesticulations, he intimated hesitatingly and yet impatiently, with much bashful circumlocution, that he knew of a solace, of complete wisdom which was there for every earnest seeker.
I like to recede right out in the open but the slate-grey hanks kept doing bashful curtseys over the scooped zigzag of my brow.