pudibund

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Shy, bashful; prudish. rare
    — 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.

词形变化

more pudibund comparative most pudibund superlative

词源

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