prude
Pronunciations (2)
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/pɹuːd/
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pɹuːd
Noun
A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
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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.
More examples (1)
And the best thing about her is that she's not a prude. In fact, she's something of a trollop: she jokes with everybody and laughs and makes fun of everything.
Adjective
Prudish.
Noun
a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
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