pudibund

From Latin pudibundus, from pudeō (“make ashamed, be ashamed”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːdɪbʌnd/

pudibund (comparative more pudibund, superlative most pudibund)

1. (rare) Shy, bashful; prudish.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 8, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, London: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 2, page 329:

     Involuntarily Lucette bent her head and frail spine, then 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 padded headboard.

pudibund m or n (feminine singular pudibundă, masculine plural pudibunzi, feminine and neuter plural pudibunde)

1. alternative form of pudibond