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Meanings of blushful in English

Having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset.

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Of blush color.

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Examples for "blushing"
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I don't want to harass you with medical questions, I said, blushing.
She, myself & i
2
And Alec hadn't been a blushing innocent for a very long time.
Shadows Return
3
And in a blushing hurry she led the way towards the house.
Cousin Phillis
4
He stood looking at the cat in helpless stupor, and blushing red.
The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia
5
Could he feel her crying the way he could feel her blushing?
Table for five
1
So I am literally red-faced with rage about Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Wired
2
They were red-faced and they had obviously been drinking a long time.
The Young Lions
3
The very red-faced man was going to London for a few days.
The Irish Times
4
The seaman had always evinced a settled pique against the red-faced warrior.
Tales of a Traveller
5
This was too much for the red-faced boy lying on the grass.
The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, The Mystery of Brig...
Usage of blushful in English
1
What are you whisperin' about, you blushful chap there by the winder?
At a Winter's Fire
2
But Hoddan got them back to the ship, in confusion tending toward the blushful.
The Pirates of Ersatz
3
Sally leaned back all pinksome and blushful, and while she laughed at him she
Laddie: A True Blue Story
4
I call it "the blushful Hippocrene," that the poet describes as
A Laodicean : A Story of To-day
5
He was very ceremonious, shy, ungainly and blushful.
The Lion's Share
6
Oh, for a beaker full of the warm south, full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene!
Mike
7
The exquisite rose had not yet opened its leaves so as to show its heart; but its fragrance and blushful pride were there in perfection.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century / and Kindred Papers Relating to...
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"It is the true, the blushful Hippocrene."
Not that it Matters
Frequent collocations
Blushful through the time