Pudically

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a pudic manner; prudishly.

    "Visiting what the programme pudically calls "A famous rendezvous for beautiful women and wealthy lovers" -- the kind of place which in simple old London forces half the police into evening dress, with what result to the more imaginative of our younger officers Parliament discusseth not -- the Cornet beheld at a night-club Mlle."

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"Visiting what the programme pudically calls "A famous rendezvous for beautiful women and wealthy lovers" -- the kind of place which in simple old London forces half the police into evening dress, with what result to the more imaginative of our younger officers Parliament discusseth not -- the Cornet beheld at a night-club Mlle."

Etymology

From pudic + -ally.

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