[ adj ] having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset <adj.all> the blushing boy was brought before the Principalher blushful beau was red-faced with anger
Blush \Blush\ (bl[u^]sh) v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blushed} (bl[u^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blushing}.] [OE. bluschen to shine, look, turn red, AS. blyscan to glow; akin to blysa a torch, [=a]bl[=y]sian to blush, D. blozen, Dan. blusse to blaze, blush.] 1. To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.
To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. --Milton.
In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. --Buckminster.
He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. --Cowper.
2. To grow red; to have a red or rosy color.
The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. --Shak.
3. To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. --T. Gray.
Blushing \Blush"ing\, a. Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate.
The dappled pink and blushing rose. --Prior.
Blushing \Blush"ing\, n. The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.
Most of the editors were blushing.
Naturally, at night these school girls blossom into blushing debutantes in diaphanous strapless ballgowns right out of the 1950s.
She tried out a rakish smile, hiccuped slightly and dropped her eyes to the fruit bowl, blushing. An uncomfortable silence.
Els smiled and whispered something that had the blushing salesman actually laughing as he marched towards the green. There is no doubt that South Africans are on the verge of a great love affair.
"I would say that we aren't afraid," he says, blushing.