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Prudish vs Pudibund - What's the difference?

prudish | pudibund |

As adjectives the difference between prudish and pudibund

is that prudish is of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters while pudibund is shy, bashful; prudish.

prudish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters

    • Related terms

    * prudery * prudishness

    See also

    * straight-laced * prim * priggish * prissy * puritanical

    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.