Prude: meaning in English

Prude – definition

noun
A person who is or claims to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity.
Usage examples:
The sex was so ambiguous and romantic that none but a prude could find it objectionable
Synonims:
Puritan Prig Killjoy Moral zealot/fanatic Moralist Mrs grundy Grundy Old maid Schoolmarm Pietist Victorian Priggish person Bluenose Goody-goody Goody two shoes Holy joe Holy willie Miss prim

noun
A person who is easily shocked by rude things

Prude translation into English

Prude: translate from English into Chinese

正经的, 过份正经, 谦虚的女人

Prude: translate from English into Dutch

Preuts, Preutse meisje, Preutse vrouw, Nuf

Prude: translate from English into French

Prude

Prude: translate from English into German

Prüde, Zicke

Prude: translate from English into Hindi

कपटी, पाखंडी, अति औचित्यवादी व्यक्ति, अति पाखंडपूर्ण विनीत स्री, पाखंडी स्‍त्री (जो उठने-बैठने और बातचीत में अत्‍यधिक सावधान रहती है)

Prude: translate from English into Italian

Prude, Puritano

Prude: translate from English into Korean

교만한, 정숙한 체하는 여자

Prude: translate from English into Russian

Ханжа, Блюститель нравов, Жеманница, Притворно стыдливая женщина, Не в меру щепетильная женщина

Prude: translate from English into Spanish

Mojigato, Remilgado, Gazmoño

Word origin

early 18th century: from French, back-formation from prudefemme, feminine of prud'homme ‘good man and true’, from prou ‘worthy’.

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Prude synonims

bluenose

noun
A priggish or puritanical person.
Usage examples:
The most restrictive, bluenose standards

Bluenose - all meanings in English

goody two shoes

noun
Someone who is too ready to behave in a way intended to please people in authority
Usage examples:
She’s a real goody-goody – i hate her!

Goody two shoes - all meanings in English

goody-goody

noun
Someone who is too ready to behave in a way intended to please people in authority
Usage examples:
She’s a real goody-goody – i hate her!

Goody-goody - all meanings in English

killjoy

noun
A person who deliberately spoils the enjoyment of others.
Usage examples:
A few killjoys try to reform the seasonal activities

noun
A person who does not like other people enjoying themselves

Killjoy - all meanings in English

moralist

noun
A person who teaches or promotes morality.
Usage examples:
Approximately half the entry is on the greek moralists socrates, plato, aristotle, and the stoics.

noun
A person who tries to force or teach other people to behave in ways he or she considers to be most correct and honest

Moralist - all meanings in English

prig

noun
A self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if they are superior to others.
Usage examples:
She was religious but not a prig

noun
A person who obeys the rules of correct behaviour and considers himself or herself to be morally better than other people

Prig - all meanings in English

puritan

noun
A member of a group of english protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the reformation of the church under elizabeth i as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
Usage examples:
From its inception there had been a committed protestant minority who aspired to complete a full pr…

adjective
Relating to the puritans.
Usage examples:
A puritan parliamentarian

Puritan - all meanings in English

schoolmarm

noun
A schoolmistress (typically used with reference to a woman regarded as prim, strict, and brisk in manner).
Usage examples:
I gave an exasperated schoolmarm's laugh

Schoolmarm - all meanings in English

victorian

adjective
Relating to the reign of queen victoria.
Usage examples:
A victorian house

noun
A person who lived during the victorian period.
Usage examples:
The victorians had a passion for documenting, cataloguing and classifying the world around them

noun
A person from the australian state of victoria.
Usage examples:
The facility has taught thousands of victorians to use the internet

Victorian - all meanings in English

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