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blushing bride

blushing bride noun: a bride.

Noun

blushing bride (plural blushing brides)

  1. A bride.
    • My beautiful blushing bride, Sheila here, and I - We have come all the way up here to god’s green country to... Kill you. Clean you. And eat you.2009, Benjamin Gilton, The Missing Dinner Guests
    • Dana Jackson was not your average blushing bride. You see, she went down the aisle on her 100th birthday.2012, Melissa Locker, “Bride Ties the Knot on Her 100th Birthday”, in Time

Forms of blushing bride

pluralblushing brides

Origin of blushing bride

Originally a reference to a virgin bride who, lacking sexual experience, might be nervous about her wedding night.

Questions about blushing bride

What does blushing bride mean?
Blushing bride means a bride.
What part of speech is blushing bride?
Blushing bride is a noun.
What is the plural of blushing bride?
The plural of blushing bride is blushing brides.

Words near blushing bride in the dictionary

  1. blushier
  2. blushiest
  3. blushily
  4. blushiness
  5. blushing
  6. blushing bride
  7. blushing brides
  8. blushing bunny
  9. blushingly
  10. blushingness
  11. blushings

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