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Etymology
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16th-century apheresis of abashed -ful ( “ full of ” ) .
Pronunciation
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IPA (key ) : [ˈbæʃfəɫ] , [ˈbæʃfʊɫ] Audio (Southern England) (file )
Adjective
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bashful (comparative more bashful , superlative most bashful )
Shy ; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.Indicating bashfulness.
a bashful look
2017 David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad , London: HarperCollins Children’s Books , →ISBN “Have you done something to your hair?” bashful grins. Frank had never witnessed his babysitter behave like this before.
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inclined to avoid notice
Arabic: خَجُول ( ḵajūl )
Aromanian: arushinos
Belarusian: сарамлі́вы ( saramlívy )
Bulgarian: плах (bg) ( plah ) , свенли́в (bg) ( svenlív ) , срамежли́в (bg) ( sramežlív )
Cherokee: ᎤᏕᎰᏌᏘ ( udehosati )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 害羞 (zh) ( hàixiū )
Danish: sky (da)
Dutch: verlegen (nl) , timide (nl)
Finnish: ujo (fi)
French: timide (fr)
Galician: recatado m recatada f
German: schüchtern (de) , verlegen (de) , scheu (de)
Greek: ντροπαλός (el) ( ntropalós )
Ancient: αἰδήμων ( aidḗmōn ) , αἰδοῖος ( aidoîos )
Irish: náireach náiriúil faiteach
Italian: vergognoso (it) , timido (it) , modesto (it)
Japanese: 恥ずかしがり屋の ( はずかしがりやの, hazukashigariya no ) , 恥ずかしい (ja) ( はずかしい, hazukashii )
Khmer: អៀន (km) ( ʼiən )
Korean: 부끄럼 을 타다 ( bukkeureomeul tada )
Latin: pudens verēcundus
Latvian: kaunīgs
Malayalam: ലജ്ജയുള്ള ( lajjayuḷḷa )
Maori: konekone numinumi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: beskjeden (no) , sky (no) , forlegen unnselig (no)
Nynorsk: beskjeden sky forlegen
Ottoman Turkish: محجوب ( mahcub )
Portuguese: tímido (pt) , recatado (pt)
Romanian: rușinos (ro)
Russian: засте́нчивый (ru) ( zasténčivyj ) , ро́бкий (ru) ( róbkij ) , скро́мный (ru) ( skrómnyj )
Spanish: tímido (es)
Turkish: utangaç (tr)
Ukrainian: соромли́вий ( soromlývyj ) , сором'язли́вий (uk) ( soromʺjazlývyj ) , сором'язни́й ( soromʺjaznýj )
Welsh: swil (cy)
