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Meaning of Prude | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
pɹuːd

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

العربية المتزمت
Català purità
Dansk snerpe
Deutsch prüde prüde Person prüder
Ελληνικά καλόγρια σεμνότυφος
Esperanto prudulino prudulo
Español mojigata mojigato
Suomi sievistelijä
Français bégueule prude prude sainte-nitouche
Galego mexericas mexeriqueiro
Magyar prűd
Bahasa Indonesia sok suci
Íslenska pempía tepra
Italiano prude prude
Nederlands preut
Polski cnotka cnotka niewydymka niewydymka świętoszek świętoszka zakonnica
Português pudico puritana puritano
Română pudic
Русский свято́ша

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.”

CEFR level

C2
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See also

Pruden Prudence Prudence Island Prudencio prudency prudeness

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