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Definitions: Blush |
BlushNoun1. A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health. 2. Sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty). Verb1. Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by". 2. Become rosy or reddish; "her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blush" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
19th Century Satire | A temporary erythema and calorific effulgence of the physiognomy, aeteologized by the perceptiveness of the sensorium, in a predicament of inequilibrity, from a sense of shame, anger or other cause, eventuating in a paresis of the vase-motorial, muscular. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Literature | Blush At the first blush. At the first glance; speaking off-hand without having given the subject mature deliberation. The allusion is to blushing at some sudden or unexpected allusion; the first time the thought has flashed into your mind. To put to the blush. To make one blush with shame, annoyance, or confusion. "England might blush in 1620, when Englishmen trembled at a fool's frown [i.e. James I.], but not in 1649, when an enraged people cut off his son's [Charles I.] head."- Wendell Phillips: Orations, p. 419. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Personal Care & Hotels | Ultralescent whipped cream make-up and --. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BlushSynonyms: bloom (n), rosiness (n), crimson (v), flush (v), redden (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beginning | First stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight. |
Discourtesy | Verb: be -rude; Adjective: insult; treat with discourtesy; take a name in vain; make bold with, make free with; take a liberty; stare out of countenance, ogle, point at, put to the blush. |
Disrepute | Upset, throw off one's center; discompose, disconcert; put to the blush; (humble). |
Feeling | Swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake; be agitated, be excited; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath. |
Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement. | |
Humility | Render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear. |
Modesty; verecundity, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame,sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down. | |
Blush for, blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang one's head, look foolish, feel small. | |
Insolence | Domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas, regarder de haut en bas; exact; snub, huff., beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over. |
Manifestation | Adverb: manifestly, openly; Adjective: before one's eyes, under one's nose, to one's face, face to face, above board, cartes sur table, on the stage, in open court, in the open streets; in market overt; in the face of day, face of heaven; in broad daylight, in open daylight; without reserve; at first blush, prima facie, on the face of; in set terms. |
Modesty | Noun: modesty; humility; diffidence, timidity; retiring disposition; unobtrusiveness; bashfulness; Adjective: mauvaise honte; blush, blushing; verecundity; self-knowledge. |
Keep private, keep in the background, keep one's distance; pursue the noiseless tenor of one's way, " do good by stealth and blush to find it fame ", hide one's light under a bushel, cast a sheep's eye. | |
Morning | Peep of day, break of day; aurora; first blush of the morning, first flush of the morning, prime of the morning; twilight, crepuscule, sunrise; cockcrow, cockcrowing; the small hours, the wee hours of the morning. |
Ornament | Cosmetics, makeup; eye shadow, rouge, face powder, lipstick, blush. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blush |
| English words defined with "blush": At first blush, At the first blush ♦ betraying, blush wine, Blushed, blushful, Blushy ♦ prickling ♦ rosy, Rud ♦ stinging ♦ tingling, To put to the blush ♦ when first seen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blush": Allworthy ♦ Blushing ♦ Coloured Frontispiece by Phiz ♦ SCANDAL PROOF. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "blush": Ablush ♦ Blowze, Blushy ♦ livid. (references) |
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Screenplays | He has made me do things that would make a whore blush. (The League of Gentlemen; writing credit: Jeremy Dyson; Mark Gatiss) | |
Lyrics | What it takes to make a pro blush ("Bette Davis Eyes"; performing artist: Kim Carnes) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bombay Blush (2001) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Rosey Plectritis or Sea Blush (Plectritis congesta) near Shady Cove. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Bruyere | Men blush less for their crimes, than for their weaknesses and vanity. |
Cervantes | Better a blush on the face than a blot on the heart. |
Cicero | It is better for a young man to blush, than to turn pale. |
Gotthold | A blush is a sign that nature hangs out, to show where chastity and honor dwell. |
Gregory | When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. |
Henry David Thoreau | After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. |
Madame Neckar | The inconvenience, or the beauty of the blush, which is the greater? |
Marcus T. Cicero | A letter does not blush. |
Publius Cornelius Tacitus | Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood. |
Tertullian | Truth does not blush. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She had given them neither men, nor names, nor places, that could raise a blush. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This blush did not last long. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They blush better. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some hot flashes may cause only a slight feeling of warmth or a light blush. (references) | |
Flashes can be as mild as a light blush or severe enough to wake you from a sound sleep (called night sweats). (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Blush" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 56.87% of the time. "Blush" is used about 262 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 56.87% | 149 | 25,810 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 32.82% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.78% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.53% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 262 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "blush" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Blush | Last name | 100 | 87,634 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "blush": at first blush ♦ At the first blush ♦ blush crimson ♦ blush for shame ♦ blush wine ♦ blush with shame ♦ first blush ♦ put smb. to the blush ♦ put to blush ♦ put to the blush ♦ To put to the blush. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "blush": blush-brink, blush-colored, blush-making, blush-pink, blush-pinkened, blush-tinted, blush-veined, blush-white. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "blush"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | turpërohem (be ashamed), turpërim (discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, mortification, shame), skuqem (become flushed, become red, color, colour, crimson, get red in the face, glow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محمر (fried, red, reddish, roasted), متورد (florid, rose, rosy, ruddy), نظرة (cast, catch sight, eye, gander, gaze, glimpse, look, manhole), حمر خجلا, تورد (bloom, flush, glowing, mantle, sallowness), خجل (abash, bashfulness, be ashamed, dash, diffident, efface oneself, make shy, mantle, redden, shame, shy, shyness, timidity), إحمرار الوجه, إستحى (be ashamed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | руменина (color, colour, flush, glow, high color, redness, suffusion), червенина (flushing, redness), вид (air, appearance, aspect, breed, cast, clan, class, complexion, demeanor, demeanour, description, form, genre, genus, grade, guise, kidney, kind, likeness, look, manner, mien, mode, nature, order, persuasion, presence, race, shape, show, similitude, sort, species, strain, stripe, style, taxon, type, variety, view), засрамване, зачервявам се (become flushed, fire, flush, purple, rouge), поруменявам (color, colour, flush), поглед (eye, eyewink, gaze, look, peek, regard, sight, view, vision), изчервяване (flush, high color). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 赧 , 脸红 (Blushed, Blushing), 害羞 (shy), 忸 (accustomed to, be shy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zrudnout, zaèervenat se (color up, colour up, flush), stydìt se (be ashamed, shame), rumìnec (flush, glow, vermeil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skamroedme (blushing, erythema pudicitiae). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rood worden, kleuren (color, colour, paint), blozen (blushing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ruĝiĝi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | rodna. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سرخی صورت دراثرخجلت , سرخ شدن (Toast), شرمنده شدن (Bash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | punastus, punastua (colour, flush, redden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rougir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erröten (blushing, color, colour, flush, to blush, to flush), Schamröte (blushing, erythema pudicitiae). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοκκινίζω (blotch, blush at, flush, go red, redden), ερύνθημα (flush), ερυθριώ (flush, redden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"תא"ם (become red, redden), ל"א"ים (crimson, incarnadine, redden), ל"סמיק (flush, mantle, redden), לסמוק (flush, redden), סומק (redness, rouge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pír (flush, suffusion), hajnalpír, elpirulás, arcpirosító (blusher, rouge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rossore (crimson, flush, redness, rubicundity, ruddiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 赤面 (kabuki villain, red face), 紅潮 (flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せきめ" (asbestos), "うちょう (bird of passage, favourable, flood tide, flush, hard tone, headmaster, high spirits, high tide, in good shape, migratory bird, nightingale, offices of a public or governmental organization, principal, promising, satisfactory, surge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 면하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lossey (ablaze, afire, aflame, blaze, burning, flame, flame up, flare, flush, flush in fever, ignition, light), jirgid (glow, redness, ruddiness), jiargaghey (flush, glow, redden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maya | chak-poxe'ental (to blush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | rødme (flush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ushblay vermelhidão (flush, redness, rose, ruddiness), ruborizar-se (color, colour, redden), rubor (blushing, color, colour, flush, glow, redness, rose, ruddiness, suffusion), relance (glance), envergonhar-se, corar (blanch, bleach, color, colour, flush, paint, redden, ruddy), aspecto (air, appearance, aspect, cast, complexion, feature, fettle, garb, guise, light, look, make, mien, outlook, presence, riskiness, sight, stalking horse, view, visage). (various references) roşi (flush, make red, redden, rouge), roşeaţã în obraji, colora (color, colour, dye, exaggerate, flush, paint, stain, tincture, tinge, tint), aprinde (animate, beacon, enkindle, excite, fan, fire, heat, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, light up, redden, rot, shine, strike), a-i fi ruşine de, înroşi (encrimson, redden, ripen, rouge), îmbujora (dye, flush). (various references) краснеть (crimson, mantle, redden, turn red). (various references) rugha (a blush), rudha (a blush, a promontory, bloom, ruddiness of complexion, See <A HREF="mf10.html#rubha">rubha</A>). (various references) zajapuriti, rumenilo (flush, vermilion, vermillion), rumen (florid, flush, incarnadine, rosy, ruddy, vermilion, vermillion), porumeneti (redden), pocrveneti (flame up, get red in the face), crveneti (rubefy). (various references) vistazo (browse, gander, glance, look, once-over, squint), sonrojo (blushing), ruborizarse (color, colour, flush, redden), rubor (blushing, flush, redness, rubicundity, ruddiness, suffusion), enrojecer (blotch, flush, redden), encenderse (blaze up, burn up, catch, catch fire, come on, come up, flare, flare up, get excited, get red, go off, go on, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, strike), encarnado (carnation, incarnadine, incarnate, ingrowing, ingrown, red), color de rosa (rose), arrebolarse, arrebol (flush, glow). (various references) rodna (crimson, flush, grow red, redden). (various references) yüzü kızarmak (change colour, flush), yüz kızarması, utanmak (be ashamed, be ashamed of, be shy, blush with shame, feel shame at, feel small, look small), utanma (being ashamed, confusion, embarrassment, shame), kızarmak (be fried, be roasted, be toasted, Brown, color, color up, colour, colour up, crimson, flame, glow, go red, redden, toast, turn red), kırmızılaşmak (go red, redden, turn red). (various references) рожевий колір (pink), червоніти (color, colour, crimson, mantle, overflush), краска сорому, зашарітися (reddle), заливатися рум'янцем, багрянець (purple), погляд (angle, aspect, belief, eye, gander, look, mind, notion, opinion, sight, view, viewpoint). (various references) nét ửng đỏ cái nhìn, cái liếc mắt l m cho ai thẹn đỏ mặt. (various references) gwrido (flush), gwrid (bloom, flush), gwladeiddio, cochi (redden, redness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | erubescam, erubescamus, erubescant, erubescas, erubescat, erubesce, erubescebant, erubescent, erubescentes, erubescere, erubescerem, erubescerent, erubesces, erubescet, erubescetis, erubescit, erubescite, erubescitis, erubesco, erubescunt, erubuerit, erubuerunt, erubui, erubuit, rubor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ezra Chapter 9, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai sunekaqisan pan to plhqoV en th eurucwrw tou ierou tremonteV dia ton enestwta ceimwna |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et dixi Deus meus confundor et erubesco levare Deus meus faciem meam ad te quoniam iniquitates nostrae multiplicatae sunt super caput et delicta nostra creverunt usque in caelum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And seide, Mi God, I am confoundid and ashamed to reren my face to thee, for oure wickenessis ben multiplied vpon oure hed, and oure giltis ben sprungen vnto heuene, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up to the heavens. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven. |
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| Language | Ezra Chapter 9, Verse 6 |
| Albanian | dhe thashë: "O Perëndia im, unë jam i pështjelluar dhe më vjen turp të ngre fytyrën time ndaj teje, o Perëndia im, sepse paudhësitë tona janë shumëzuar deri mbi kokën tonë, dhe faji ynë ka arritur deri në qiell. |
| Cebuano | Ug ako miingon: Oh Dios ko, ako naulaw ug nanlipaghong sa pagyahat sa akong nawong kanimo, Dios ko; kay ang among kasal-anan nagadugang ibabaw sa among ulo, ug ang among pagkamakasasala nagsasaka ngadto sa kalangitan. |
| Chinese | 說 、 我 的 神 阿 、 我 抱 愧 ' 羞 、 不 敢 向 我 神 仰 面 、 為 我 們 的 罪 孽 滅 、 我 們 的 罪 惡 " 天 。 |
| Croatian | i rekoh: "Bože moj! Stid me i bojim se podiæi svoje lice k tebi, Bože moj! Jer su se umnožila zlodjela naša preko glave i grijesi su se naši nagomilali do neba. |
| Danish | og sagde: Min Gud, jeg skammer mig og blues ved at løfte mit Ansigt til dig, min Gud, thi vore Misgerninger er vokset os over Hovedet, og vor Skyld er så stor, at den rækker til Himmelen! |
| Dutch | En ik zeide: Mijn God, ik ben beschaamd en schaamrood, om mijn aangezicht tot U op te heffen, mijn God; want onze ongerechtigheden zijn vermenigvuldigd tot boven ons hoofd, en onze schuld is groot geworden tot aan den hemel. |
| Finnish | ja minä sanoin: "Jumalani, minä olen häpeissäni enkä kehtaa kohottaa kasvojani sinun puoleesi, minun Jumalani; sillä meidän rikkomuksemme ovat nousseet päämme ylitse ja meidän syyllisyytemme on kohonnut taivaaseen asti. |
| French | et je dis: Mon Dieu, je suis dans la confusion, et j`ai honte, ô mon Dieu, de lever ma face vers toi; car nos iniquités se sont multipliées par-dessus nos têtes, et nos fautes ont atteint jusqu`aux cieux. |
| German | und sprach: Mein Gott, ich schäme mich und scheue mich, meine Augen aufzuheben zu dir, mein Gott; denn unsre Missetat ist über unser Haupt gewachsen und unsre Schuld ist groß bis in den Himmel. |
| Hungarian | És mondék: Én Istenem, szégyenlem és átallom felemelni, én Istenem, az én orczámat te hozzád, mert a mi álnokságaink felülhaladtak fejünk fölött és a mi vétkeink mind az égig nevekedtek! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Aku berkata, "Ya Allahku, aku ini malu untuk mengangkat kepalaku di hadapan-Mu. Dosa kami bertumpuk-tumpuk di atas kepala kami sampai menyentuh langit. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | sambil sembahku: Ya Allahku! amat sangat malu dan bera muka hamba, tiada berani hamba menengadah kepadamu, ya Allahku! karena segala kejahatan kami sudah meliputi kepala kami dan segala salah kami sudah bertimbun-timbun sampai ke langit. |
| Italian | e ho detto: te, poiché le nostre colpe si sono moltiplicate fin sopra la nostra testa; la nostra colpevolezza è aumentata fino al cielo. |
| Maori | Na ka mea ahau, E toku Atua, he whakama ahau, numinumi kau ana ahau, te ara ai toku mata ki a koe, e toku Atua. Kua tetere rawa hoki o matou he ki runga ake i o matou mahunga; nui atu to matou poka ke, a tutuki noa ki te rangi. |
| Norwegian | og sa: Min Gud! Jeg skammer mig og blues for å løfte mitt ansikt op mot dig, min Gud! For våre misgjerninger er vokset oss over hodet, og vår skyld er blitt så stor at den når til himmelen. |
| Portuguese | e disse: " meu Deus! Estou confuso e envergonhado, para levantar o meu rosto a ti, meu Deus; porque as nossas iniqüidades se multiplicaram sobre a nossa cabeça, e a nossa culpa tem crescido até o céu. |
| Rumanian | ,,Dumnezeule, sknt uluit, wi mi -e ruwine, Dumnezeule, sq-mi ridic faya spre Tine. Cqci fqrqdelegile noastre s`au knmulyit deasupra capetelor noastre, wi grewelile noastre au ajuns pknq la ceruri. |
| Spanish | y dije: "Dios mío, estoy avergonzado y afrentado como para levantar mi cara a ti, oh Dios mío; porque nuestras iniquidades se han multiplicado sobre nuestras cabezas, y nuestra culpa ha crecido hasta los cielos. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blush": blushed, blusher, blushers, blushes, blushful, blushing, blushingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "blush": ablush, outblush. (additional references) | |
Words containing "blush": outblushed, outblushes, outblushing, unblushing, unblushingly. (additional references) | |
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"Blush" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alush, baluch, Baluchi, beloush, bleh, Bleugh, blih, blish, Blisham, blosm, Bluhm, Blushi, blushy, Bluth, bouzah. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blush" (pronounced blu"sh) |
| 3 | -l u" sh | flush, lush, plush, slush. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: buhls. | |
| Words within the letters "b-h-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: buhl, bush, hubs, lush, shul, slub. | |
-2 letters: bus, hub, sub. | |
-3 letters: sh, uh, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-h-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: ablush, bluish, bushel. | |
+2 letters: bashful, blueish, blushed, blusher, blushes, bullish, bulrush, bushels, bushily, humbles, publish. | |
+3 letters: bluchers, bluefish, blushers, blushful, blushing, boxhauls, bullrush, bullshit, bullshot, busheled, busheler, bushland, bushless, bushlike, chasuble, clubbish, halibuts, holibuts, humblers, humblest, outblush, pushball, saltbush, subphyla, subshell. | |
+4 letters: backhauls, bashfully, blueheads, blueshift, brushland, brutishly, buhlworks, bulkheads, bullheads, bullhorns, bullishly, bullshits, bullshots, bullwhips, bulrushes, bungholes, bushelers, busheling, bushelled, bushlands, chasubles, clubhands, clubhauls, clubhouse, copublish, crushable, flashbulb, flashcube, flashtube, flushable, husbandly, nailbrush, published, publisher, publishes, pushballs, republish, sublethal, subphylum, subshells, thuribles. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 75 73 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. ..- ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01110101 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l u s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0075 0073 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3678878574 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Orthography 22. Bibliography |
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vertaling, transferim, transmetim, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان, транслация, огъване, превод, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, превеждане, 翻è, překlad, oversættelse, translatie, taajuusmuutos, translaatio, traduction, oersetting, Übersetzung, μετάφραση, תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק, fordítás, traduzione, 翻è , へい"ういどう, やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, トランスレーション , やくじゅつ, ほ"やくしょ, 번역, tradukshon, tradução, translaţie, tãlmãcire, traducere, сдвиг, трансляция, перемещение, перевод, tumačenje, traducción, översättning, tercüme, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, sá dách, sá bián th nh sá giái thích, trosiad, for translation; vertaal, transmetoj, transferoj, نقل من لغة إلى أخرى, ترجم الأفكار الي أعمال, ترجم, بهج لأقصى حد, преправям от старо, премествам, обяснявам, изяснявам, тълкувам, прибирам в рая, превеждам, кърпя, traduir, 翻è, 翻è , 翻 , 繙 , přenést, přeložit, překládat, oversætte, vertalen, translateren, overzetten, týða, kääntää, traduire, übersetzen, μεταφράζω, לתר'ם, fordít, þýða, tradurre, トランスフォー æ層 , トランスレート , 번역하십시", chyndaa, oversette, tradusí, tłumaczyć, traduzir, traduce, переводить, prevoditi, prevesti, preneti, traducir, översätta, tercüme yapmak, tercüme etmek, переміщувати, пояснювати, перекладатися, перекладати, trosi, for translate; 翻è, siirros, translation, übersetzend, μετάφραση, תר'ום, traslazione, 번역, tãlmãcire, traductorio, traduciendo, översättandet, översätter, for Translating; transferues, المترجم, الترجمان, преводач, èè, překladatel, kodeomsætter, omregner, isolertransformer, skilletransformer, omsætter, Oversætter, oversætterprogram, oversaetter, kääntäjä, Traducteur, Übersetzer, Mεταφραστής, μετασχηματιστής απομονώσεως, μεταβιβαστής, μεταφράστησ, μεταφραστής, αποκωδικοποιητής, מתר'ם, תור'מן, fordító, traduttore, èè , 翻èè , 翻è家 , トランスフォー æ層 , トランスレーター , トランスレータ , ほ"やくしゃ, ほ"やくか, やくしゃ, 통역, glareyder, chyndaader, tradutor, tãlmaci, translator, traducãtor, tãlmãcitor, переводчик, tumač, traductor, um-húmushi, översättare, tercüman, транслятор, гравірувальник, перекладач, cyfieithydd, for translator; Engels, anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglès, Ingles, èè, è國 , èæ , è , èè , anglicky, anglan, inglise, enskt, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, Ingelsk, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angle, angleze, א 'לית, angol, ensku, enskur, enska, Béarla, inglese, 영국, oluzungu, luzungu, englesch, anglisy, Inggris, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, english, inglês, anglés, inglestataq, inglesta, englezesc, английский, Igilisi, beurla, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, angleško, ingiriisi, ingiriisiga, sekgowa, inglés, kiingereza, sí-Ngísi, engelsk, peret‘ne, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, sekgoa, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова, Saesneg, ngale, isilungu, isiNgisi, for English; Albaans, Albanies, Albaniese taal, shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanyano, é"巴尼亚è, é爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanees, albanskt, albanialainen, Albanais, Albaneesk, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, arbnisht, arbërisht, albán, albanskur, albanska, AlbÚinis, albanese, 알"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, Alapania, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець, for Albanian; Arabies, arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, éæ伯 , arabský, arabština, arábiskt, arabialainen, arabe, Arabysk, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabir, arabic, арабский, Arapi, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiáng A-ráp, thuác A-ráp, for Arabic; asturiano, for asturian; aimará, aimara, for aymara; Baskies, Bask, واحد من الباسكيين, الباسكي, Vascu, жакетче, баскски език, баскски, баска, Basko, 巴æ克 , 巴æ克è , baskiskur, baskiskt, Basque, Baskysk, baskisch, baske, baszk, Bascais, basco, バスに乗る , バスク , Bascish, Bascagh, basc, баскский, баск, baskijski jezik, baskijski, baskijac, vascuence, vasco, bask'lar veya bask dili ile ilgili, bask kabilesinden kimse, футерування, баскський, облицювання, блузка у талію, for Basque; Beier, 巴æ力亚, bavarois, bayer, βαυάροσ, bajorországi, bajor, bavarese, Baveyragh, bávaro, bavarski, bavarac, bajersk, bavyera, bavyeralı, баварський, баварець, for Bavarian; μαυροπόδαροσ, for blackfoot; breizhat, 不列"尼人, Breton, Bretone, 브리타니 사람, Britaanagh, Bretonagh, Britaanish, bretão, Llydaweg, for Breton; Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, ngÆái Bun-ga-ri tiáng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian; каталонски, каталонец, catal , katalánský, Katalaansk, katalanisch, katalane, katalanin, katalán, catalano, catalão, catalan, каталонский, Katalana, katalonski, katalonac, catalán, katalansk, katalonyalı kimse, katalonyalı, katalonya veya dili ile ilgili, katalonya lehçesi, for catalan; Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, æè, 中 , æ , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフスè , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць, for Chinese; ضارب للإصفرار, корнуолски език, корнуолски, 康æ", cornwallština, cornwallský, cornique, kornisch, aus cornwall, carnwalli nyelvjárás, corwaldi kelta, della cornovaglia, Kernowish, Kernowagh, Cornish, Cornagh, relativo cornualha, dialeto da cornualha, limbã din cornwall, din cornwall, корнуоллский язык, корнуоллский, stanovnik kornvala, kornvalski, córnico, från cornwall, kornisk, cornwall ile ilgili, корнуольський, корнійська мова, Cernyweg, for cornish; Kroaties, хърватски, Croasyano, 克羅地亞è , chorvatský, kroatiskt, croate, Kroätysk, kroatisch, horvát, croato, croácio, croata, croat, хорватский, hrvatski, hrvat, de croacia, kroatisk, hırvat, хорватська мова, хорватський, хорватка, хорват, for Croatian; Tsjeggies, Tsjeg, çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, Checu, чешки, Sekoslovakyano, æ克è , æ克è, æ克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tjekkiskt, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tsjechysk, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, Czech, chèc, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, ngÆái Séc tiáng Séc, for Czech; Deens, danisht, danishte, لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹éè, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiáng Đan-mách, for Danish; Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, èèè , è兰è, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngá khó hiáu, "b xã", for Dutch; الاسبرانتو لغة دولية, Esperantu, есперанто, 世界è, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, אספר טו, eszperanto, eszperantó, エスキモー犬 , エスペラント , эсперанто, Eseperano, esperanto, Kiesperanto, าษาที่ประ"ิษฐ์ขึ้นเพื่อใช้เป็น าษากลางในการสื่อสารระหว่างประเทศ ซึ่งรากศัพท์ส่วนใหญ่, esperanto dili, tiáng etperantô, for esperanto; Ests, Est, estonez, من أبناء إستونيا, أستونيه, أستونى, Estoniu, естонски, естонец, естонски език, Estonyano, 爱æ尼亚, estonský, ester,estlænder, Estlander, Estlands, eesti, estonianskt, virolainen, estonien, Estysk, Este, Εσθονός, észt, estone, Estoinagh, estônio, estoniano, estónio, eston, эстонец, эстонский, Esotonia, estonski, estonac, estonski jezik, estonio, estländare, ชาวเอสโตเนีย, เกี่ยวกับประชาชน าษาหรือวั'นธรรมของเอสโตเนีย, าษาเอสโตเนีย, for Estonian; è罗æ, føroyskur, färöisk, färöbo, for Faeroese; Farsi, Parsi, persiskt, Fasi, for Farsi; Fins, finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, Pinlandino, èèè , è兰è, finský, finskt, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finnskur, finnska, finlandese, 핀란", Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, Finisi, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiáng Phán-lan, for Finnish; فلمنكي, الفلمنكية لغة, الأرنب الفلمنكي, фламандски, фламандски език, |
