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Bash·ful a.
1. Abashed; daunted; dismayed. [Obs.]
2. Very modest, or modest to 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.
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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]