OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9990

prude

/pɹuːd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mojigata • mojigato
A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
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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