[Robert B. Mercer]

Thanks for saving my bacon, mykwaner... your explanation is right on the money; the verb To Abash is, as you succinctly said, archaic in writing... although tomorrow, to make up for my less-than-complete posting, I'm going to try to work in into a sentence... "Gee, boss, you're kinda abashing poor Cindy, aren't you? After you abashed me, of course..."

Sort of reminds me of that Christmas Carrol The Wassail Song, "Here we go a'bashing among the leaves so green..."