Definitions for bashful

bashful bash·ful

Spelling: [bash-fuh l]
IPA: /ˈbæʃ fəl/

Bashful is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in bashful (abfhlsu).

Definitions for bashful

adjective

  1. uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid.
  2. indicative of, accompanied by, or proceeding from bashfulness.

Origin of bashful

First recorded in 1540-50; (a)bash + -ful

Examples for bashful

The man to be so bashful; the woman to want so much courting!

bashful or bold then, he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary.

Oh, of course, dearest, you would be too bashful; but I 'm not.

She hesitated in a funny, bashful manner which roused my interest.

"Oh, they are most beautiful," replied she, with a bashful falling of her eyelids.

They are extreme modest and bashful, very shy, and nice of being touchd.

The boss thrust the goad into the hand of the bashful fellow.

"Probably the presence of Stumpy made her bashful," suggested Ned.

She hesitated, muffled from head to foot, shadowy and bashful.

But, I fancy, it is many, many years ago since he was bashful.

Word Value for bashful
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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