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pudique

pudique is the obsolete form of pudic.

Meaning of pudic

Adjective

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
  2. Pertaining to the pudendum or external genital organs; pudendal.

Forms of pudique

comparativemore pudique
superlativemost pudique

Questions about pudique

What is pudique the obsolete form of?
Pudique is the obsolete form of pudic.

Words near pudique in the dictionary

  1. pudicitia
  2. pudicities
  3. pudicity
  4. pudina
  5. Puding
  6. pudique
  7. pudknocker
  8. pudknockers
  9. Pudney
  10. Pudneys
  11. PUDO

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pudique (page history and authors); pudic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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