prudish

prudish

English

Etymology

prude +‎ -ish

Adjective

prudish (comparative more prudish, superlative most prudish)

1. of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters

Derived terms

• prudishly
• prudishness
• unprudish

Related terms

• prudery
• prudishness

Translations

exaggeratedly proper

Chinese: Mandarin: 过分拘谨的 Czech: prudérní (cs) Danish: sippet, snerpet Dutch: preuts (nl) Esperanto: pruda French: prude (fr), pudibond (fr) Galician: suiño, encobado German: prüde (de) Greek: σεμνότυφος (el) (semnótyfos)

Hungarian: prűd (hu) Italian: pudico (it) Norwegian: prippen (no), snerpete, fisefin Polish: pruderyjny Portuguese: pudico (pt) Romanian: pudibond Russian: жема́нный (ru) (žemánnyj), стыдли́вый (ru) (stydlívyj) Spanish: pudibundo (es), santurrón, mojigato (es), pacato, timorato (es), cartuchón, gazmoño Swedish: pryd (sv) Turkish: bağnaz (tr), mutaassıp (tr), yobaz (tr), iffet taslayan, iffetçi

See also

• straight-laced
• prim
• priggish
• prissy
• puritanical