shamefaced

English

Etymology

Alteration (due to folk etymology) of shamefast, from Middle English schamefast, schamfast, sceomefest, from Old English sċamfæst (“modest”), equivalent to shame +‎ fast.

Adjective

shamefaced (comparative more shamefaced, superlative most shamefaced)

Bashful, showing modesty or embarrassment.
- 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London‎, 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

shamefaced crab
shamefacedly
shamefacedness

Translations

bashful or ashamed

Bulgarian: срамежлив (bg) (sramežliv)
Dutch: beschaamd (nl)
Estonian: häbistatud
French: penaud (fr) m, honteux (fr) m
German: verlegen (de), verschämt (de)
Ido: pudoroza (io), shamoza
Italian: vergognoso (it) m, ritroso (it) m
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: şermîn (ku)
Russian: робкий (ru) (robkij), стыдливый (ru) (stydlivyj)
Spanish: avergonzado (es), apenado (es)
Swedish: skamsen (sv)

References

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967