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Prude

//pɹuːd// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective

1
Prudish.

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

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

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

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 3

English surname, probably a variant of Proud.

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