blushet

English

Etymology

blush +‎ -et?

Noun

blushet (plural blushets)

(obsolete) A modest girl.
- 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 4:
  little blushet Wax ne'er so easy

References

“blushet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

bushlet

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