The phrase "bashful of" is not a commonly used phrase in written English.
If you wanted to use it, it would generally refer to someone who is shy or hesitant about something. Example: She was bashful of joining in the discussion.
✒ Last week's Cannes Lions advertising festival at last saw Mail Online publisher Martin Jurassic Clarkeke, the bashful king of the world of celebrity, coming close to becoming a celebrity himself.
But Cook was the dominant one, man of the series, bashful king of all he surveyed.
We've heard lots of bashful self-reports of how proud people are of themselves for making eye contact with strangers -- sometimes even a smile!
The child born into the pages of Tristram Shandy is surrounded by the anecdotal world view of a previous generation, above and below stairs, and in particular by the tales of the military veteran, uncle Toby, a patriot "of the old stamp" and bashful source of philanthropic feeling in the novel.
A bashful son of a Methodist minister, McGovern grew wary of "the excessive emotionalism of some evangelists" as he came of age in an America where his father was occasionally compensated not in cash but in cabbage.[1].
If Hansen wants a symbolic irony, he should find one in Armstrong's long-ago docking mishap with the Agena; perhaps all the tumbling portended the bashful looping of the shuttle, its endless circumscription of the stay-at-home species that keeps launching it.
There is an enjoyable range of sources, with HP Lovecraft rubbing shoulders with Tété-Michel Kpomassie of Togo and Japanese explorer Nobu Shirase, as well as the requisite polar heroes and then the bashful ranks of travelling novelists, apologising for their lack of derring-do.
Defenders appear energized at the prospect of changing the momentum, and the offenses seem bashful, afraid of losing the initiative.
