Prude

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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