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pudibund, a. rare.|ˈpjuːdɪbʌnd|
Also ‖ pudibond.
[ad. L. pudibund-us easily ashamed, bashful, modest, also shameful, f. pudēre to make or be ashamed; cf. F. pudibond (16th c. in Littré).]
†a. That is a subject of shame; shameful. Obs.
b. Modest, bashful, prudish. Also † pudiˈbundous a.
1542Boorde Dyetary x. (1870) 253 And yf any man..doth burne in the pudibunde places. 1656Blount Glossogr., Pudibund, Pudibundous, shame-fac'd, bashful, modest, honest. 1888Sat. Rev. 29 Dec. 785/2 To outrage the pudibund soul of their countryman. 1900A. Lang in Blackw. Mag. Mar. 363/2 English literature became the most ‘pudibund’..the world has ever known. a1922T. S. Eliot Waste Land Drafts (1971) 103 Pudibund, in the clinging vine. 1923G. Saintsbury Second Scrap Bk. iii. 25 My tutor in Scholarship was the late ‘Johnny’ King, an expert in his subject..and a very good fellow, but rather shy and extremely pudibund. Ibid. xxxviii. 269, I understand that Soviet education is not at all pudibund, and that the principles of parenthood are treated and illustrated in it with a fine ‘candour’. 1930D. B. Wyndham Lewis Stuffed Owl p. ix, The illiterate, the semi-literate, the Babu,..the hearty but ill-equipped patriot, the pudibond yet urgent Sapphos of endless Keepsakes and Lady's Magazines.
Hence pudiˈbundity (pedantic), ˈpudibundness, bashfulness, prudery.
1727Bailey vol. II, Pudibundness. 1888Sat. Rev. 28 Jan. 100 Only the pudibundity of the Editor of this Review prevents us from at once vindicating..the Great F. B. 1893Ibid. 4 Feb. 126/2 We cannot approve the editor's pudibundity in omitting a few ‘indecent words’. |