Bashful

Definition: Bashful

Bashful

Adjective

1. Self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound.

2. 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).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bashful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Note: Bashful \Bash"ful\, adjective. [See Bash.]. (references)

BASHFUL

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Bashful

Modesty

Adjective: modest, diffident; humble; timid, timorous, bashful; shy, nervous, skittish, coy, sheepish, shamefaced, blushing, overmodest.

Crosswords: Bashful

The Bashful Elephant (1962)

Bashful Romeo (1949)

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

Bashful Ballerina (1937)

The Bashful Buckaroo (1937)

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Books

• Bashful (reference)

• Bashful Bear (reference)

• Benji Martin is Bashful (reference)

• Flatfoot Fox and the Case of the Bashful Beaver (reference)

• I'm Shy: A Bashful Little Pop-Up Book (Bashful Little Pop-Up Book) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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The Bashful model / S.L. Fildes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Betty Grable in the beautiful blonde from Bashful Bend : It's Betty - the biggest draw with the men anywhere!. Credit: Library of Congress.

"That's what you wanna see and that's what you will see and don't bring bashful with you 'cause he can't take it." An outdoor carnival comes once a year to the mining section. Granville, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Willy was bashful, awful bashful

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Expression using "bashful": bashful Billy. Additional references.

Albanian

i turpshëm (censurable, coy, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, humiliating, ignominious, ill at ease, indecent, infamous, inglorious, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, reserved, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, shameful, sheepish, shy, timid, unhallowed, vile, villainous), i druajtur (backward, chary, coy, diffluent, faint-hearted, mousey, mousy, self-effacing, shy, timid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محتشم (chaste, coy, decent, decorous, demure, honest, modest, reserved, shy), ‏حيي (breathe, exist, live, live well, modest, shack), ‏عفيف النفس, ‏خجول (abashed, ashamed, backward, chary, coy, diffident, embarrassed, mean, modest, mousey, retiring, self conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, sheep's, shrinking, shy, timid). (various references)

Bulgarian 

срамежлив (shamefaced, shy), свенлив (blushing, maidenlike, maidenly, shamefaced, shy). (various references)

Chinese 

靦 , 羞 (America, ashamed, beautiful, shame, shy), 怕羞 (coy, shy), 害臊. (various references)

Czech

stydlivý (cockshy, coy, demure), ostýchavý (backward, coy, demure, diffident, prim, self conscious, shamefaced, shy). (various references)

Finnish

kaino (coy, shy), häveliäs (coy, diffident, modest). (various references)

French

timide, pudique. (various references)

German

schüchtern (bashfully, coy, diffident, diffidently, mousey, mousy, sheepish, shy, shyly, timid), verschämt (coy, pudent, pudently, spurns). (various references)

Greek 

σεμνόσ (decent, demure, humble, maidenly, modest, unpretending), ντροπαλόσ (blushing, coy, shy), ντροπαλός (coy, shy, timid), δειλόσ (boggler, chicken, chicken hearted, coward, dastardly, faint-hearted, fearful, lily livered, mealymouthed, pusillanimous, sheepish, shy, skittish, skulker, timid, timorous, weak-kneed, white livered, yellow), δειλός (chicken-hearted, funk, shy, tentative, timid, yellow). (various references)

Hebrew 

בישן (ashamed, coy, shy, timid). (various references)

Hungarian

szemérmes (chaste, coy, prim, shamefaced, shy), félénk (be shy, be timid, chicken hearted, chicken-hearted, coy, cringing, diffident, faint, faint-hearted, farouche, fearful, fearsome, nervous, poor spirited, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheepfaced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous, tremulous). (various references)

Indonesian

malu (mortification, shame, shy). (various references)

Italian

timido (abashed, coy, diffident, faint, milksop, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, timid, timide). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

面� ゆい (abashed, embarrassed, self-conscious), 物怖じ (cowardice, timidity), 照れ性 (shy), 極まり悪い , 忸怩たる (shameful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもはゆい (abashed, embarrassed, self-conscious), きまりわるい (being ashamed, feeling awkward), ものおじ (cowardice, timidity), じくじたる (shameful), てれしょう (shy). (various references)

Manx

scaagh (shadowy, shady, timid), neayreydagh, nearildagh (ashamed, confused, coy, coy of girl, demure, retiring, shy). (various references)

Pig Latin

ashfulbay.(various references)

Portuguese

tímido (afraid, apprehensive, backward, blushing, diffident, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, fearsome, gawk, mousey, mousy, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, rabbity, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous, tremulant, tremulous, unassertive), envergonhado (ashamed, hangdog, poor-spirited, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy). (various references)

Romanian

timid (coy, diffident, hesitating, maiden, maidenly, milky, mousy, pigeon-hearted, retiring, self conscious, sheepish, shy, sissy, timid, timorous), sfios (backward, coy, demure, faint-hearted, maiden, maidenlike, maidenly, meek, milky, mousy, retiring, self conscious, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous), ruşinos (discreditable, disgraceful, disgracefully, ignoble, infamous, infamously, inglorious, maidenlike, milky, nefarious, opprobrious, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, sheepish, shy, sky), pudic, feciorelnic (bashfully, coy, immaculate, maidenlike, virginal, virginally). (various references)

Russian 

застенчивый (blushful, blushing, coy, diffident, humble, self conscious, self-conscious, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shrinking, shy, trembly, unassertive). (various references)

Scottish

soidealta. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stidljiv (blushful, coy, demure, shamefaced, shy, timid, trembly), snebivljiv (sheepish, skittish). (various references)

Spanish

vergonzoso (abashing, ashamed, diffident, discreet, disgraceful, humiliating, ignominious, shamefaced, shameful, shameless, sheepish, shy, timide), tímido (afraid, blushing, capon, coy, diffident, faint-hearted, fearful, mousey, mousy, nervous, shamefaced, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous, tongue tied), corto (brief, curt, narrow, scanty, short, skimpy, stumpy, timid). (various references)

Swedish

försagd (backward, blushful, chicken-hearted, diffident, faint-hearted, poor spirited, pussilanimous, shamefaced, timid, wimpish), blyg (abashed, coy, demure, diffident, mousey, mousy, self-conscious, shamefaced, shy, timid). (various references)

Thai

ขี้อาย (sheepish, shy). (various references)

Turkish

utangaç (coy, diffident, embarrassed, gawky, mean, pudent, retiring, shamefaced, shame-faced, shy, timid, timorous), sıkılgan (embarrassed, retiring, self conscious, sheepish, shy, timid), çekingen (backward, coy, demure, diffident, distrustful of oneself, eunuch, faint, fainthearted, farouche, mousy, reserved, retiring, shrinking, shy, standoffish, timid, timorous, uncommunicative, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn). (various references)

Turkmen 

utanjaс (shy). (various references)

Ukrainian

скромний (blushing, chaste, coy, decent, demure, discreet, humble, lowly, maidenlike, maidenly, modest, nice, quiet, retiring, sedate, simple, spare, unobtrusive), соромливий (blushful, blushing, chary, coy, humble, ovine, pudent, self conscious, self-effacing, shamefaced, shy, timid, trembly, willyard), боязкий (backward, coward, dastard, dastardly, diffident, eerie, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, heartless, nervous, ovine, pavid, poor spirited, shamefaced, sheepish, spiritless, timid, timorous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bẽn lẽn (coy, demure, shamefaced, sheepish, shily, shy, shyly, timid), rụt rè (coy, sheepish, timid), e lệ (timid). (various references)

Welsh

yswil (shy, timid), swil (shy), gwylaidd (modest), gw+yl (feast, festival, holiday, modest), cywilyddgar (shy). (various references)

inpudentissimi, pudens, vercundus. (various references)

baissier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bashful": bashfully, bashfulness, bashfulnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bashful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baseful, bashfull, beaksful, busful. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ablush.

-2 letters: blahs, blush, buhls, flabs, flash, flubs, flush, habus, hauls, hulas, shaul, subah, sulfa.

-3 letters: albs, bals, bash, blah, buhl, bush, fash, flab, flub, flus, fubs, habu, half, haul, hubs, hula, labs, lash, lush, saul, shul, slab, slub, suba.

-4 letters: abs, alb, als, ash, bah, bal, bas, bus, fas, flu, fub, has, hub.

+2 letters: bashfully, flashbulb, flashcube, flashtube, flushable.

+3 letters: flashbulbs, flashcubes, flashtubes, harborfuls.

+4 letters: bashfulness, buffalofish, buffleheads.

+5 letters: shuffleboard.