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English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
prude (plural prudes)
- A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, IV :
- 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.
1991, Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: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.
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Translations
A person who is or tries to be excessively proper
- Catalan: purità m
- Czech: prudérní (cs) m
- Danish: sippe c, snerpe c
- Dutch: preut (nl)
- Esperanto: prudulo, prudulino
- Finnish: sievistelijä (fi)
- French: bégueule (fr) m or f, prude (fr) m or f, sainte-nitouche (fr) f
- Galician: mexericas, mexeriqueiro m, mexeriqueira f, puritano m, puritana f
- German: prüde Person f, Prüder m, Prüde f
- Greek: σεμνότυφος (el) (semnótyfos)
- Hebrew: חָסוּד m (ẖasúd)
- Hungarian: prűd (hu)
- Icelandic: tepra f, pempía f
- Indonesian: sok suci
- Italian: prude m
- Polish: świętoszek (pl) m, świętoszka f
- Portuguese: puritano (pt) m, puritana f, pudico (pt) m
- Romanian: pudic (ro) m, puritan (ro) m
- Russian: свято́ша (ru) c (svjatóša)
- Spanish: mojigato (es) m, mojigata (es) f
- Swedish: pryd person
- Tagalog: maliyoso f
- Turkish: iffet-füruş, namus düşkünü, namus kumkuması
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Further reading
- “prude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “prude”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Adjective
prude (comparative more prude, superlative most prude)
- Prudish.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Back-formation from prudefemme, feminine of prud’homme (“good man”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
prude (plural prudes)
- prude
Further reading
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpru.de/
- Rhymes: -ude
- Hyphenation: prù‧de
Verb
prude
- third-person singular present indicative of prudere
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
prude
- Alternative form of pryde (“proudness”)
Old French
Adjective
prude
- feminine singular of pruz