different between pudic vs pudency

English

Etymology

From French pudique, from Latin pud?cus, from pudet (“it shames”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pju?d?k/
• Rhymes: -u?d?k

Adjective

pudic (comparative more pudic, superlative most pudic)

1. Easily ashamed, having a strong sense of shame; modest, chaste.
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, p. 383:

     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?

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 46:

     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.

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

Anagrams

• Cupid, cupid

English

Etymology

From Latin pudentia, from Latin pudet (“it shames”).

Noun

pudency (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Modesty.
   • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act II, Scene 5,^[1]

     Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain’d

     And pray’d me oft forbearance; did it with

     A pudency so rosy the sweet view on’t

     Might well have warm’d old Saturn […]

   • 1780, Thomas Holcroft, Alwyn, London: Fielding & Walker, Volume I, Letter 4, p. 58,^[2]

     He has no respect to the timidity or pudency of youth or sex, but will say the most discouraging, as well as the rudest things, and receives pleasure in proportion to the pain he communicates.

   • 1883, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Poet” in Poems, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 302,^[3]

     Maidens laugh and weep; Composure

     Is the pudency of man.

   • 1906, Elizabeth Bisland, The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Volume I, Chapter 2, p. 62,^[4]

     The youthful artist working in any medium is prone to be impatient of the prejudices of Anglo-Saxon pudency.

Related terms

• impudence
• pudic