pudic

comparative more pudic · superlative most pudic

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

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   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. anatomyPertaining to the pudendum or external genital organs; pudendal.