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pudically en · ADV

Etymology

From pudic + -ally.

Meanings

1. In a pudic manner; prudishly.
   • This recalls the Victorian embarrassment with utility, the decorative euphemism which sheathed chairs in antimacassars, pudically curtained table legs, and named railway engines after chivalric warriors; but there's more to it than that. 1982, Peter Conrad, Television, the medium and its manners, page 4:
   • And what that was may now be revealed, since the Fellows of All Souls have removed the Noli me tangere from the chapel roof, where Gilbert Scott1 once pudically hid it, and have actually cleaned it. 1961, Gerald Reitlinger, The Economics of Taste: The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices 1760-1960:
   • Visiting what the programme pudically calls "A famous rendezvous for beautiful women and wealthy lovers" -- the kind of place which in simple old London forces half the police into evening dress, with what result to the more imaginative of our younger officers Parliament discusseth not -- the Cornet beheld at a night-club Mlle. 1948, James Agate, Around cinemas, page 21:
   • The man, who is about to remove the trousers which he is wearing over his boxing costume, looks at him in horror, and pudically retires behind a curtain to finish his perfectly modest disrobing. 1987, The European Gay Review - Volume 2, page 10:

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