blushful

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset
adjective of blush color

From blush (adjective) + -ful.

“Oh, for a beaker full of the warm south, full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! — Mike, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
She was tongue-tied, and her tutored walking and really admirable stature helped her to appease, the critics of her sex; by whom her too readily blushful innocence was praised, with a reserve, expressed in the remark, that she was a monstrous fine toy for a duke’s second childhood, and should never have been let fly from his nursery. — Complete Short Works of George Meredith, George Meredith

blushing, red-faced

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