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)
• Esperanto: pruda (eo)
• French: prude (fr), pudibond (fr)
• German: prüde (de)

• Hungarian: prűd (hu)
• Italian: pudico (it)
• Norwegian: prippen (no), snerpete (no), fisefin (no)
• Spanish: pudibundo (es)
• Swedish: pryd

See also

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