pudic

pudic
adjective /ˈpjuːdɪk/
a) 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 childrens book?

b) Pertaining to the pudendum or external genital organs; pudendal.

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 soaps crashing against the marble board than a sign of pudic displeasure.


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