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- [proo-dish]
- /ˈpru dɪʃ/
- /pruːd/
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- [proo-dish]
- /ˈpru dɪʃ/
Definitions of prudish word
- adjective prudish excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc. 1
- adjective prudish characteristic of a prude. 1
- adjective prudish If you describe someone as prudish, you mean that they are too easily shocked by things relating to sex. 0
- adjective prudish like or characteristic of a prude; too modest or proper 0
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Origin of prudish
First appearance:
before 1710 One of the 50% oldest English words
First recorded in 1710-20; prude + -ish1
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Parts of speech for Prudish
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
prudish popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 84% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for prudish
adj prudish
- abstinent — forbearance from any indulgence of appetite, especially from the use of alcoholic beverages: total abstinence.
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- by the book — according to the rules; in the prescribed or usual way
- chaste — If you describe a person or their behaviour as chaste, you mean that they do not have sex with anyone, or they only have sex with their husband or wife.
- coy — evasive, esp in an annoying way
noun prudish
- goody two shoes — a goody-goody.
- goody two-shoes — goody-goody
adverb prudish
- demurely — characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
adjective prudish
- finicking — Finical.
- hardboiled — Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- humourless — (British spelling, Canadian) alternative spelling of humorless.
- qualmish — tending to have, or having, qualms.
- rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
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