/pɹuːd/
OriginFrom 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.
- 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.”
“If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man.”
Formsprudes(plural) · more prude(comparative) · most prude(superlative) · Prudes(plural)