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pudibund en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈpjuːdɪbʌnd/

Etymology

From Latin pudibundus, from pudeō (“make ashamed, be ashamed”).

Meanings

1. (rare) Shy, bashful; prudish.
   • Involuntarily Lucette bent her head and frail spine, then she lay back on the outer half of Ada’s pillow in a martyr’s pudibund swoon, her locks spreading their orange blaze against the black velvet of the padded headboard. 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 8, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →OCLC, page 329:

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