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Bashful vs Pudibund - What's the difference?

bashful | pudibund |

As adjectives the difference between bashful and pudibund

is that bashful is inclined to avoid notice while pudibund is shy, bashful; prudish.

bashful

English

Alternative forms

* bashfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (rfc-sense) inclined to avoid notice
  • reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.

    • Synonyms

    * shy * See also

    pudibund

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shy, bashful; prudish.
  • *1969 , (Vladimir Nabokov), Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 327:
  • *:she lay back on the outer half of Ada's pillow in a martyr's pudibund swoon, her locks spreading their orange blaze against the black velvet of the paddded headboard.