Having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset.
1 What are you whisperin' about, you blushful chap there by the winder?
2 But Hoddan got them back to the ship, in confusion tending toward the blushful .
3 Sally leaned back all pinksome and blushful , and while she laughed at him she
4 I call it "the blushful Hippocrene," that the poet describes as
5 He was very ceremonious, shy, ungainly and blushful .
6 Oh, for a beaker full of the warm south, full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene!
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.
8 "It is the true, the blushful Hippocrene."
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