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Fellow with a blush in animation (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bashful

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'fellow with a blush in animation' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'fellow with a blush' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'fellow' could be 'f' (abbreviation - of a society etc.) and 'f' is found in the answer.
'a' is within the answer.
an anagram of 'blush' is 'bshul' which is within the left over letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for bashful that I've seen before include "Shy, timid" , "One of Disney's dwarves" , "one among celebrated seven" , "Coy" , "Shovel and pick worker" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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