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pudic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈpjuːdɪk/

Etymology

From French pudique, from Latin pudīcus, from pudet (“it shames”).

Meanings

1. Easily ashamed, having a strong sense of shame; modest, chaste.
   • Is it not extraordinary, by the way, that all over Europe, even in the pudic nurseries of your own country, this should be regarded as a children's book? 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 383:
   • a big mulberry-colored cake of soap slithered out of her hand, and her black-socked foot hooked the door shut with a bang which was more the echo of the soap's crashing against the marble board than a sign of pudic displeasure. 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 46:
2. Pertaining to the pudendum or external genital organs; pudendal.

Forms

Deriveds

pudically · impudic · antipudic