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Adjective [English]

IPA: /pɹuːd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prude.wav Forms: more prude [comparative], most prude [superlative]
enPR: pro͞od Rhymes: -uːd 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. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|prude}} French prude, {{der|en|fro|prude}} Old French prude, {{der|en|la|prōde}} Latin prōde Head templates: {{en-adj}} prude (comparative more prude, superlative most prude)
  1. Prudish.
    Sense id: en-prude-en-adj-MVdabu6q

Noun [English]

IPA: /pɹuːd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prude.wav Forms: prudes [plural]
enPR: pro͞od Rhymes: -uːd 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. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|prude}} French prude, {{der|en|fro|prude}} Old French prude, {{der|en|la|prōde}} Latin prōde Head templates: {{en-noun}} prude (plural prudes)
  1. A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature. Categories (topical): People Synonyms: prig, goody-goody, puritan, celibacist, erotophobe, antisexualist Derived forms: prudely, prudery, prudish, prudist Related terms: proud Translations (A person who is or tries to be excessively proper): purità [masculine] (Catalan), prudérní [masculine] (Czech), sippe [common-gender] (Danish), snerpe [common-gender] (Danish), preut (Dutch), prudulo (Esperanto), prudulino (Esperanto), sievistelijä (Finnish), bégueule [feminine, masculine] (French), prude [feminine, masculine] (French), sainte-nitouche [feminine] (French), mexericas (Galician), mexeriqueiro [masculine] (Galician), mexeriqueira [feminine] (Galician), puritano [masculine] (Galician), puritana [feminine] (Galician), prüde Person [feminine] (German), Prüder [masculine] (German), Prüde [feminine] (German), σεμνότυφος (semnótyfos) (Greek), חָסוּד (ẖasúd) [masculine] (Hebrew), prűd (Hungarian), tepra [feminine] (Icelandic), pempía [feminine] (Icelandic), sok suci (Indonesian), prude [masculine] (Italian), świętoszek [masculine] (Polish), świętoszka [feminine] (Polish), puritano [masculine] (Portuguese), puritana [feminine] (Portuguese), pudico [masculine] (Portuguese), pudic [masculine] (Romanian), puritan [masculine] (Romanian), свято́ша (svjatóša) [common-gender] (Russian), mojigato [masculine] (Spanish), mojigata [feminine] (Spanish), pryd person (Swedish), maliyoso [feminine] (Tagalog), iffet-füruş (Turkish), namus düşkünü (Turkish), namus kumkuması (Turkish)
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Adjective [French]

IPA: /pʁyd/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-prude.wav Forms: prudes [plural]
Etymology: Back-formation from prudefemme, feminine of prud’homme (“good man”). Head templates: {{fr-adj}} prude (plural prudes)
  1. prude Categories (topical): Personality
    Sense id: en-prude-fr-adj-EMA8g7mO Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries

Verb [Italian]

IPA: /ˈpru.de/
Rhymes: -ude Head templates: {{head|it|verb form}} prude
  1. third-person singular present indicative of prudere Tags: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Form of: prudere
    Sense id: en-prude-it-verb-yrt74xS2 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} prude
  1. Alternative form of pryde (“proudness”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: pryde (extra: proudness)
    Sense id: en-prude-enm-noun-2hud5LJg Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries

Adjective [Old French]

Head templates: {{head|fro|adjective form}} prude
  1. feminine singular of pruz Tags: feminine, form-of, singular Form of: pruz
    Sense id: en-prude-fro-adj-LNbYX6Z~ Categories (other): Old French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        "Prudish."
      ],
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          "Prudish",
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        ]
      ]
    }
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    },
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      "rhymes": "-uːd"
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  ],
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}

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      ]
    }
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        "prude"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prude",
          "prude#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/pʁyd/"
    },
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}

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        {
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        }
      ],
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        "third-person singular present indicative of prudere"
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈpru.de/"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ude"
    }
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}

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}

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