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单词 pudendum
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pudendumn.

Brit. /pjʊˈdɛnd(ə)m/, U.S. /pjuˈdɛnd(ə)m/
Inflections: Plural pudenda.
Forms: Middle English 1600s– pudenda (plural), 1600s– pudendum.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin pudendum, pudēre.
Etymology: < classical Latin pudendum, literally ‘that of which one ought to be ashamed’, use as noun (usually in plural, pudenda , to denote the external genitals) of neuter gerundive of pudēre to cause shame, ashame (see pudent adj.); compare also classical Latin pars pudenda shameful part. Compare Middle French pudendes , plural noun (1532; compare parties pudendes , plural (1509), literally ‘shameful parts’), pudende , singular noun (1555), French pudendum (1765), pudenda , plural noun (1845; now archaic or literary). Compare earlier pudend n.In post-classical Latin pudenda is also used with specific reference to the male genitals (4th cent.; 5th cent. in Augustine in pudenda virilia).
1. In plural and singular. The external genitals; esp. the vulva.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]
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shameOE
i-cundeOE
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person1824
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privates1940
naughty bits1972
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 60 Also for schame þise parties hatte pudenda, þe schameliche parties.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Eiiv Certaine I am there was neuer any kinde of apparell euer inuented, that could more disproportion the body of man then these Dublets with great bellies hanging down beneath their Pudenda.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 15 She [sc. a Hottentot] will immediatly pull by her flap, and discouer her pudenda.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §v. 93 The Skeleton of a Porpess, or Sea-Hog... The Paps are placed one on each side the Pudendum.
1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 193 The frame of his Body was all in a strange Convulsion, and his Pudenda retir'd so inwardly, that there was no discerning whether he had been Male, or Female.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. 449 The original Sources of the Shame relating to the Pudenda are probably the Privacy requisite [etc.].
1823 Lancet 23 Nov. 257/2 There is at this time a girl in the other Hospital with sloughing of the pudendum.
1841 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. 53 These parts, closing and surrounding the genital fissure, altogether constitute the pudendum.
1893 T. M. Madden Clin. Gynæcol. v. 59 The value [for pruritus] of a solution of cocaine freely brushed over the pudendum..is unquestionable.
1922 A. G. Magian Sex Probl. Women ii. 31 The Vulva, or Pudendum, includes—(1) The labia majora and minora bounding the pudendal cleft. (2) The mons veneris. (3) The vestibule, [etc.].
1977 E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) v. 58 Sanskrit manuscripts show Indian women with shaved pudenda.
1993 B. W. Aldiss Tupolev too Far (BNC) 36 What I clutch in my hand is a fruit of the sea almond. It's..covered with a fine but coarse fibre like pubic hair. In fact, the nut resembles a girl's pudendum.
2. figurative. The shameful parts of something. rare.
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1918 tr. K. A. Kuhn in Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 7 Aug. 7/7 Must culture build its cathedrals on hills of corpses, seas of tears, and the death-rattle of the vanquished? Yes, it must. These accompaniments..may be regarded if one will, as the pudenda of glory.
1938 S. Beckett Murphy 47 Here are the pudenda of my psyche.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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