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noun
a person who is excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
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prude (pruːd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a person who affects or shows an excessively modest, prim, or proper attitude, esp regarding sex | |
| [C18: from French, from prudefemme, from Old French prode femme respectable woman; see | |
| 'prudish | |
| —adj | |
| 'prudishly | |
| —adv | |
| 'prudishness | |
| —n | |
| 'prudery | |
| —n | |
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Prude
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Word Origin & History
prude
1704, from Fr. prude "excessively prim or demure woman" (also an adj.), first recorded in Molière, from O.Fr. preude "good, virtuous, modest," perhaps an ellipsis of preudefemme "a discreet, modest woman," from O.Fr. prou de femme, fem. equivalent of prud-homme "a brave man" (see
proud). First record of prudish is from 1717. Prudery first recorded 1709.
"The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened." [Victor Hugo]
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Example sentences
While he understands the medical stuff he learned in school pretty well, he is stuffy and a bit of a prude.
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