prude
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 5
Definition of prude
3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
“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.”
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noun
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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.”
“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.”
adj
- Prudish.
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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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