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Definition of Prudish
1. Adjective. Exaggeratedly proper. "My straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
Similar to: Proper
Derivative terms: Priggishness, Primness, Primness, Prudishness, Puritan
Definition of Prudish
1. a. Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.
Definition of Prudish
1. Adjective. of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prudish
1. marked by prudery [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prudish
Literary usage of Prudish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"Speaking of prudish people, we remember one young lady who stood two hours ?n
... We never meet prudish people without thinking of the very modest old maid ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"witness the familiarities of the Queen and Bergami. But if their lordships did
not give credit to this prudish conduct on the part of this ship captain, ..."
3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"All from the notion of sipping, or taking only a little at a time ; hence, prudish,
affected, coy, &c. Cf. Low G. sipp, prim, den Mund sipp trekken, ..."
4. William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo, Melville Best Anderson (1899)
"Proud and magnanimous, but strangely hypocritical, great but pedantic, able but
haughty, at once daring and prudish, having favorites but no masters, ..."
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