prudish

English

Adjective

prudish (comparative more prudish, superlative most prudish)

1. of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters

Related terms

• prudery
• prudishness

Translations

exaggeratedly proper

Danish: sippet (da), snerpet (da) Dutch: preuts (nl) French: prude (fr), pudibond (fr) German: prüde (de) Hungarian: prűd (hu)

Norwegian: prippen (no), snerpete (no), fisefin (no) Spanish: pudibundo (es) Swedish: pryd

See also

• straight-laced
• prim
• priggish
• prissy
• puritanical