blushing
b luh shing
- v turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- v become rosy or reddish
- s having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset
the blushing boy was brought before the Principal
- For a sex lecture, the lady instructor arrives in the buff, prompting a genial response from a student audience, and furious blushing and giggles from four parents.
- Harvard alums were blushing a deep crimson red last week as the university's Committee on College Life approved the campus's first student sex magazine.
- The British Medical Journal, asked if it could suggest any medical treatment for blushing, replied: "In some cases atropine is of value, not only in affecting the end results, but .