bashfully
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
bashfully (comparative more bashfully, superlative most bashfully)
- In a bashful manner.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89:
- [T]he thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.
- 1944, Emily Carr, “Bachelors”, in The House of All Sorts:
- The morning of the wedding he bounded up my stair, most tremendously shaved and brushed, stood upon my doormat bashfully hesitant.
Translations[edit]
in a bashful manner
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