"prude" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /pɹuːd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prude.wav [Southern-England] 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, {{m|fro|prode}} prode, {{m|fro|prou}} prou, {{m|fro|prod}} prod, {{m|fro|prud||good, excellent, brave}} prud (“good, excellent, brave”), {{der|en|la|prōde}} Latin prōde, {{m|en|proud}} proud, {{m|en|prudent}} prudent Head templates: {{en-adj}} prude (comparative more prude, superlative most prude)
  1. Prudish.
    Sense id: en-prude-en-adj-MVdabu6q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45

Noun

IPA: /pɹuːd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prude.wav [Southern-England] 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, {{m|fro|prode}} prode, {{m|fro|prou}} prou, {{m|fro|prod}} prod, {{m|fro|prud||good, excellent, brave}} prud (“good, excellent, brave”), {{der|en|la|prōde}} Latin prōde, {{m|en|proud}} proud, {{m|en|prudent}} prudent 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: prudery, prudish 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)
    Sense id: en-prude-en-noun-QK~n4Jx2 Disambiguation of People: 1 99 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 45 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 38 62

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, IV [Uniform ed., p. 62]",
          "text": "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."
        },
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          "ref": "1991, Robert M. Pirsig, Lila",
          "text": "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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        }
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
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    {
      "enpr": "pro͞od"
    }
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    {
      "word": "prig"
    },
    {
      "word": "goody-goody"
    },
    {
      "word": "puritan"
    },
    {
      "word": "celibacist"
    },
    {
      "word": "erotophobe"
    },
    {
      "word": "antisexualist"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "purità"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prudérní"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sippe"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "snerpe"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "word": "preut"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "word": "prudulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "word": "prudulino"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "word": "sievistelijä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bégueule"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prude"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sainte-nitouche"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "word": "mexericas"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mexeriqueiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mexeriqueira"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "puritano"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "puritana"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prüde Person"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Prüder"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Prüde"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "semnótyfos",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "word": "σεμνότυφος"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "ẖasúd",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "חָסוּד"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "word": "prűd"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tepra"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pempía"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "word": "sok suci"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prude"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "świętoszek"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "świętoszka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "puritano"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "puritana"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pudico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pudic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "puritan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svjatóša",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "свято́ша"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mojigato"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mojigata"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "word": "pryd person"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maliyoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "word": "iffet-füruş"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "word": "namus düşkünü"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "A person who is or tries to be excessively proper",
      "word": "namus kumkuması"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prude"
}

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