Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The external genitals of a human, especially of a woman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy: The region of the private parts; the pubes and perineum, together or indiscriminately.
- noun Specifically, the vulva.
- noun plural The private parts; the genitals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun usually in the plural An external
genital organ in ahuman ; especially a woman’svulva . - noun figuratively A
shameful part ofsomething .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun human external genital organs collectively especially of a female
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term pudendum or vulva, as generally applied, includes all these parts.
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Calculi do not form so readily in women, for in them the urethra is short and wide, so that in them the urine is easily expelled; neither do they rub the pudendum with their hands, nor handle the passage like males; for the urethra in women opens direct into the pudendum, which is not the case with men, neither in them is the urethra so wide, and they drink more than children do.
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To be sure, it is very far from my ideas and the principles expressed by me in neuropathology to regard the sexual life as a "pudendum" which should be left unconsidered by the physician and the scientific investigator.
Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897
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bboyreason - I thought an endpiece was a "pudendum," not an "addendum."
BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Looking forward to Anne Hathaway's appearance as Viola in the current Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night, Ron Rosenbaum hopes Hathaway will have sense enough to give a certain line a particular reading that will call attention to her pudendum and invite the audience to imagine her naked and speculate about her bikini lines.
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Looking forward to Anne Hathaway's appearance as Viola in the current Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night, Ron Rosenbaum hopes Hathaway will have sense enough to give a certain line a particular reading that will call attention to her pudendum and invite the audience to imagine her naked and speculate about her bikini lines.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Barbara Walters adopted the tone and pose of a rock band groupie when interviewing the newly elected President Jimmy Carter in the fall of 1976. “Be wise with us, governor,” she said. “Be good to us.” Not a request addressed to a fellow citizen, but as with the begging of a golf ball from Tiger Woods or the offering of a pudendum to the members of Mötley Crüe, the propitiation of a god.
Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It Lewis Lapham 2010
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Barbara Walters adopted the tone and pose of a rock band groupie when interviewing the newly elected President Jimmy Carter in the fall of 1976. “Be wise with us, governor,” she said. “Be good to us.” Not a request addressed to a fellow citizen, but as with the begging of a golf ball from Tiger Woods or the offering of a pudendum to the members of Mötley Crüe, the propitiation of a god.
Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It Lewis Lapham 2010
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Barbara Walters adopted the tone and pose of a rock band groupie when interviewing the newly elected President Jimmy Carter in the fall of 1976. “Be wise with us, governor,” she said. “Be good to us.” Not a request addressed to a fellow citizen, but as with the begging of a golf ball from Tiger Woods or the offering of a pudendum to the members of Mötley Crüe, the propitiation of a god.
Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It Lewis Lapham 2010
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Barbara Walters adopted the tone and pose of a rock band groupie when interviewing the newly elected President Jimmy Carter in the fall of 1976. “Be wise with us, governor,” she said. “Be good to us.” Not a request addressed to a fellow citizen, but as with the begging of a golf ball from Tiger Woods or the offering of a pudendum to the members of Mötley Crüe, the propitiation of a god.
Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It Lewis Lapham 2010
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