shamefaced
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Alteration (due to folk etymology: shame + faced) of shamefast, from Middle English schamefast, schamfast, sceomefest, from Old English sċamfæst (“modest”), equivalent to shame + fast.
Adjective[edit]
shamefaced (comparative more shamefaced, superlative most shamefaced)
- Bashful, showing modesty or embarrassment.
- 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London[1], New York: Henry Holt and Company:
- Youth is not glorious; it is shamefaced. It is a time of self-searching and self-exacerbation.
- Ashamed, displaying shame, especially by blushing in the face.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
bashful or ashamed
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References[edit]
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967