Reverse Dictionary: BASHFUL

ADJECTIVES
..897 ► SHAMEFAST bashful; showing shame; modest → obs.
..897 ► UNBOLD bashful; lacking in boldness; timid; backward, slow → obs.
M16. ► SHAMEFACED bashful; modest, shy 
1550 ► VERECUND bashful; modest; shy, coy 
1639 ► VERECUNDIOUS bashful; modest, shy, coy → obs.
1656 ► PUDIBUND bashful; modest, prudish 
1656 ► PUDIBUNDOUS bashful; modest; shame-faced → obs.
1788 ► SACKLESS bashful; simple, inoffensive, harmless; trembling → Sc. & Eng. dial.
19C.. ► SMOOTY-FACED bashful; shy, modest, shame-faced → Eng. dial.
1803 ► DASHED bashful; abashed, cast down, ashamed → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1819 ► MEEVERLY → MEVERLY bashful; shy; of a gentle or modest disposition → Eng. dial.
1845 ► MAISK bashful, self-conscious → Sc.
1874 ► DASHFUL bashful → Eng. dial.
1889 ► BACKWARD bashful; shy; unwilling, reluctant; → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1898 ► BASH bashful; shy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► FASH bashful; shy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1903 ► PEAKY bashful, shy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLATE bashful; shy, sheepish, timid → Sc. (Bk.)
1916 ► ASHAMED bashful, timid, esp. of children → Amer. dial.
1925 ► LEFTY shy, bashful → Sc.
1932 ► AW-SHUCKS bashful; shy, self-deprecating, abashed → colloq.
1937 ► BULL-SHY bashful, shy, timid → Amer. dial.

ADVERBS
1825 ► BLAITLY → BLATELY bashfully, shyly → Sc.

NOUNS
1440 ► BASHEDNESS bashfulness, abashment → obs.
1574 ► SHEEPISHNESS simplicity, stupidity; timorousness; excessive bashfulness or diffidence
1597 ► BACKWARDNESS bashfulness, reluctance, disinclination; slowness of conception or action, sluggishness 
1605 ► PUDENCY bashfulness, modesty; shamefacedness 
M17. ► SHAMEFACE a bashful expression or appearance 
1721 ► VERECUNDITY bashfulness, modesty 
1721 ► VERECUNDNESS bashfulness, modesty 
1823 ► BLATENESS bashfulness, shyness, awkwardness → Sc.
1935 ► FIG BAR the attitude of a very bashful child, the toes turned in, eyes lowered, and the finger in the mouth → Amer. sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
1892 ► CIMARRON a shy, bashful child → Amer. dial.

VERBS
1643 ► EFFRONT to free from bashfulness → obs.
1964 ► AW-SHUCKS to behave with bashfulness or self-deprecation; to say ‘aw shucks’ → US colloq.