Prude
/pɹuːd/ adj, name, noun
adj, name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
"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."
- 2 a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum wordnet
Adjective
- 1 Prudish.
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
English surname, probably a variant of Proud.