"prudish" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈpɹuːdɪʃ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prudish.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more prudish [comparative], most prudish [superlative]
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  1. Of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters. Synonyms: prim, priggish, prissy, straight-laced, puritanical Derived forms: prudishly, prudishness, unprudish Related terms: prudery, prudishness Translations (exaggeratedly proper): βαυκός (baukós) (Ancient Greek), превзет (prevzet) (Bulgarian), фалшиво скромен (falšivo skromen) (Bulgarian), 过分拘谨的 (Chinese Mandarin), prudérní (Czech), upjatý (Czech), škrobený (Czech), sippet (Danish), snerpet (Danish), preuts (Dutch), pruda (Esperanto), sievistelevä (Finnish), kainosteleva (Finnish), tekosiveä (Finnish), prude (French), pudibond (French), suiño (Galician), encobado (Galician), prüde (German), σεμνότυφος (semnótyfos) (Greek), prűd (Hungarian), pudico (Italian), prippen (Norwegian), snerpete (Norwegian), fisefin (Norwegian), pruderyjny (Polish), pudico (Portuguese), pudibond (Romanian), жема́нный (žemánnyj) (Russian), стыдли́вый (stydlívyj) (Russian), pudibundo (Spanish), santurrón (Spanish), mojigato (Spanish), pacato (Spanish), timorato (Spanish), cartuchón [Chile] (Spanish), gazmoño (Spanish), gazmoñero (Spanish), pudoroso (Spanish), pryd (Swedish), iffetfüruş (Turkish), namus düşkünü (Turkish), namus kumkuması (Turkish)
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  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "prudery"
    },
    {
      "word": "prudishness"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "English adjectives",
        "English entries referencing missing etymons",
        "English entries referencing pages with etymology sections missing etymons",
        "English entries with etymology texts",
        "English entries with etymology trees",
        "English entries with etymon",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ish",
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        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages using etymon with no ID",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Pages with etymology trees",
        "Pages with etymon",
        "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "en:Personality"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Near-synonyms: prim, priggish, prissy; straight-laced; puritanical"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              99,
              106
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2017 April 3, Dr A W Niloc, “Resistance Songs for Day 75 - Sex Appeal”, in Daily Kos:",
          "text": "Young people who are close to writing off the Democratic Party as a dinosaur, as a gerontocracy of prudish abuelos who gave birth by immaculate conception, may be in for a pleasant surprise.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "excessive",
          "excessive"
        ],
        [
          "propriety",
          "propriety"
        ],
        [
          "offend",
          "offend"
        ],
        [
          "shock",
          "shock"
        ],
        [
          "sexual",
          "sexual"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "prim"
        },
        {
          "word": "priggish"
        },
        {
          "word": "prissy"
        },
        {
          "word": "straight-laced"
        },
        {
          "word": "puritanical"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹuːdɪʃ/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "prevzet",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "превзет"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "falšivo skromen",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "фалшиво скромен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "过分拘谨的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "prudérní"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "upjatý"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "škrobený"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "sippet"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "snerpet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "preuts"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "pruda"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "sievistelevä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "kainosteleva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "tekosiveä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "prude"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "pudibond"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "suiño"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "encobado"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "prüde"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "lang_code": "el",
      "roman": "semnótyfos",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "σεμνότυφος"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "lang_code": "grc",
      "roman": "baukós",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "βαυκός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "prűd"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "pudico"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "lang_code": "no",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "prippen"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "lang_code": "no",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "snerpete"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "lang_code": "no",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "fisefin"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "pruderyjny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "pudico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "pudibond"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "žemánnyj",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "жема́нный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "stydlívyj",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "стыдли́вый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "pudibundo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "santurrón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "mojigato"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "pacato"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "timorato"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "tags": [
        "Chile"
      ],
      "word": "cartuchón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "gazmoño"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "gazmoñero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "pudoroso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "pryd"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "iffetfüruş"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "namus düşkünü"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "exaggeratedly proper",
      "word": "namus kumkuması"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prudish"
}

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