pudic

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French pudique, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pudīcus, from pudet (“it shames”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːdɪk/
• Rhymes: -uːdɪk

Adjective

pudic (comparative more pudic, superlative most pudic)

1. Easily ashamed, having a strong sense of shame; modest, chaste.
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, p. 383:

     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?

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 46:

     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.

2. (anatomy) Pertaining to the pudendum or external genital organs; pudendal.

Anagrams

• Cupid, cupid