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blushily en · ADV

Etymology

From blushy + -ly.

Meanings

1. (rare) In a blushy manner; with a blush.
   • Rumours flew that he [Robert Frost] was a spy, even a German. But there was still one moment of sweetness, when Eleanor Farjeon’s landlady, Mrs Farmer, ‘who had stepped out of a chapter by George Eliot’, blushily invited all four poets to a country feast of ham, beef, pies, pickles, salads, tarts, trifles and a Stilton, high in the August heat. 1989 June–July, Nigel Jones, “Summer before the Dark: The Dymock Poets”, in Alan Ross, editor, London Magazine, volume 29, numbers 3 and 4, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 53:
   • “Please,” I deject, more in sorrow than in angrish, “I must already be twins to vote for Hon. Presidents. Family is large enough, please.” / "“President?” she counterbalance. “Won’t bother you with President but you must support me.” / “Delighted,” I rejoice with Teddy Roosevelt teeth. “Where are marriage license store?” / “No, no,” she deny blushily. “You are leap-yearing at conclusions. Do not wish, please, to spend golden days of young life matrimoaning around with you. But if you have need of sister, support me with vote for Second Vice-President.” 1921 July, Hashimura Togo, “A Few June Commencements”, in Western Electric News, New York, N.Y.: Western Electric Company, →OCLC, page 8, column 1:
   • The sun, yawning blushily, finished the day’s setting. 1917 August 15, “The Daily Novelette: The Color Scheme”, in Janesville Daily Gazette, volume 66, number 134, Janesville, Wis., →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
   • Soulmate be in my company without I knowing it surely. Yes, surely be it that makes thee to shy blushily; thee to shy blushily with a thousand beautiful faces, oh, Joanna come in from the sea to me. 2009, Richard Mc Sweeney, “Time is love to me sublime”, in Unto Lineage Royal: A Midsummer’s Dream, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 435:
   • Honestly, she was surprised when Susan Gillespie came up to her when they were getting their wraps to go home and giggled, ‘My dear, you were the belle of the ball.’ When Bud and Buster said so next morning and old black Emma who’d brought them all up after mother died came in from the kitchen and said, ‘Lawsy, Miss Annie, folks is talkin’ all over town about how you was the belle of the ball last night,’ she felt herself blushily happily all over. 1946 [1932], John Dos Passos, “Daughter”, in Nineteen Nineteen (U.S.A.; 2), Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, page 294:

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