prude
adjEtymology From French prude, from Old French prude, prode, feminine of prou, prod, prud (“good, excellent, brave”), from Latin prōde. Related to proud but unrelated to prudent.
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Prudish.
prude
noun/pɹuːd/
Etymology From French prude, from Old French prude, prode, feminine of prou, prod, prud (“good, excellent, brave”), from Latin prōde. Related to proud but unrelated to prudent.
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A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
- He became shy. "I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady." For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude.1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, IV [Uniform ed., p. 62]
- If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man.1991, Robert M. Pirsig, Lila:
- Synonyms
- prig, goody-goody, puritan, celibacist, erotophobe, antisexualist, bluenose, goody two shoes, killjoy, moralist, priss
- Derived terms
- prudelike, prudely, prudeness, prudery, prudification, prudify, prudish, prudism, prudist
- Related terms
- proud
- Hypernyms
- person