prude
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.
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Noun[edit]
prude (plural prudes)
- A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, IV [Uniform ed., p. 62]:
- 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.
- 1991, Robert M. Pirsig, Lila:
- 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.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, IV [Uniform ed., p. 62]:
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A person who is or tries to be excessively proper
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Further reading[edit]
- “prude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “prude”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Adjective[edit]
prude (comparative more prude, superlative most prude)
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back-formation from prudefemme, feminine of prud’homme (“good man”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
prude (plural prudes)
Further reading[edit]
- “prude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
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prude
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Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
prude
- Alternative form of pryde (“proudness”)
Old French[edit]
Adjective[edit]
prude
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