Characterized by flushing, prone to blushing, or describing something that flows or overflows easily.
From 'flush' plus the informal adjectival suffix '-y'. Appears in colloquial English from the 1800s, particularly in British English to describe temperament.
This informal adjective captures a specific personality type—someone who blushes easily and wears their emotions visibly. It's less common today, partly because we've lost the art of describing personality types with such specificity in everyday speech.
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