Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bashful"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bashful \Bash"ful\, a. [See {Bash}.]
1. Abashed; daunted; dismayed. [Obs.]
2. Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed
to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or
excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action,
expression.
Syn: Diffident; retiring; reserved; shamefaced; sheepish.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bashful
adj 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) [syn: {blate}]
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