Associations to the word «Bashful»
Noun
Verb
Wiktionary
BASHFUL, adjective. (Can we clean up([1]) this sense?) inclined to avoid notice
BASHFUL, adjective. Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
Dictionary definition
BASHFUL, adjective. Self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound.
BASHFUL, adjective. 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).
Wise words
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast
of the mind.