prudish

English

Etymology

From prude +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹuːdɪʃ/

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Adjective

prudish (comparative more prudish, superlative most prudish)

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

   Near-synonyms: prim, priggish, prissy; straight-laced; puritanical

   • 2017 April 3, Dr A W Niloc, “Resistance Songs for Day 75 - Sex Appeal”, in Daily Kos‎^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• prudishly
• prudishness
• unprudish

Related terms

• prudery
• prudishness

Translations

exaggeratedly proper

• Bulgarian: превзет (bg) (prevzet), фалшиво скромен (falšivo skromen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 过分拘谨的

• Czech: prudérní (cs), upjatý, škrobený
• Danish: sippet, snerpet
• Dutch: preuts (nl)
• Esperanto: pruda
• Finnish: sievistelevä (fi), kainosteleva, tekosiveä
• French: prude (fr), pudibond (fr)
• Galician: suiño, encobado
• German: prüde (de)
• Greek: σεμνότυφος (el) (semnótyfos)

  Ancient Greek: βαυκός (baukós)

• Hungarian: prűd (hu)
• Italian: pudico (it)
• Norwegian: prippen (no), snerpete, fisefin
• Polish: pruderyjny (pl)
• Portuguese: pudico (pt)
• Romanian: pudibond
• Russian: жема́нный (ru) (žemánnyj), стыдли́вый (ru) (stydlívyj)
• Spanish: pudibundo (es), santurrón (es), mojigato (es), pacato, timorato (es), cartuchón, gazmoño (es)
• Swedish: pryd (sv)
• Turkish: iffetfüruş, namus düşkünü, namus kumkuması