EMBARRASSMENT

Related Subjects: Awkwardness, Blushing, Timidity

1. He scratch'd his ear, the infallible resource
   To which embarrass'd people have recourse.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

2. He stood a spell on one foot fust,
   Then stood a spell on t'other,
   An' on which one he felt the wust
   He couldn't ha' told ye nuther.—LOWELL, The Courtin'