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1. (adj.) bashful
easily embarrassed; shy; timid:
a bashful child.
2. bashful
indicative of or proceeding from bashfulness:
a bashful manner.
Etymology: (1540–50; (a )bash)
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1. (adj) bashful
self-consciously timid
"I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound
2. (adj) bashful, blate
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)
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1. (adj) bashful
abashed; daunted; dismayed
2. (adj) bashful
very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression
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Sense: shy
a bashful girl; a bashful smile.
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 Afrikaans: skaam, skamerig |
 Arabic: خَجول |
 Bulgarian: свенлив |
 Brazilian: tímido |
 Czech: stydlivý, upejpavý |
 German: scheu |
 Danish: genert; forlegen |
 Greek: ντροπαλός |
 Spanish: tímido, ruboroso |
 Estonian: pelglik |
 Farsi: خجالتی؛ محجوب |
 Finnish: ujo |
 French: timide |
 Hebrew: בַּישַן @@@בַּיישַׁן$$$ |
 Hindi: शर्मीला |
 Croatian: sramežljiv |
 Hungarian: szégyenlős |
 Indonesian: pemalu |
 Icelandic: feiminn |
 Italian: timido |
 Japanese: はにかみやの |
 Korean: 부끄러워하는 |
 Lithuanian: drovus, nedrąsus |
 Latvian: kautrīgs; bikls |
 Malay: malu |
 Dutch: verlegen |
 Norwegian: blyg, sjenert |
 Polish: nieśmiały |
 Persian: خجالتی؛ محجوب |
 Pashto: شرميندوكى، خجول |
 Portuguese: tímido |
 Romanian: ruşinos |
 Russian: застенчивый |
 Slovak: ostýchavý |
 Slovenian: plašen |
 Serbian: bojažljiv |
 Swedish: blyg |
 Thai: ขี้อาย |
 Turkish: utangaç, sıkılgan, mahcup |
 Taiwanese: 害羞的 |
 Ukrainian: боязкий; соромливий |
 Urdu: شرمیلا |
 Vietnamese: rụt rè |
 Chinese: 害羞的 |
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