pudically
advEtymology
From pudic + -ally.
Definitions
In a pudic manner
In a pudic manner; prudishly.
- And what that was may now be revealed, since the Fellows of All Souls have removed the Noli me tangere from the chapel roof, where Gilbert Scott1 once pudically hid it, and have actually cleaned it.
- This recalls the Victorian embarrassment with utility, the decorative euphemism which sheathed chairs in antimacassars, pudically curtained table legs, and named railway engines after chivalric warriors; but there's more to it than that.
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