pudique
Appearance
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pudique (comparative more pudique, superlative most pudique)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin pudīcus (“chaste, pure”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pudique (plural pudiques)
- modest, chaste
- 1973, Jean Eustache, La Maman et la Putain, spoken by Veronica:
- Quand je ne suis pas complètement ivre, je suis super pudique. Voulez bien éteindre la lumière, c'est là.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: pudic
Further reading
[edit]- “pudique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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