See also: Prude, prudě, prüde, and пруде

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Etymology

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From French prude, from Old French prude, prode, feminine of prou, prod, prud (good, excellent, brave), from Latin prōde. Related to proud but unrelated to prudent.

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prude (plural prudes)

  1. A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
    • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, IV [Uniform ed., p. 62]:
      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.
    • 1991, Robert M. Pirsig, Lila:
      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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Adjective

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prude (comparative more prude, superlative most prude)

  1. Prudish.

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French

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Etymology

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Back-formation from prudefemme, feminine of prud'homme (good man).

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prude (plural prudes)

  1. prude

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Derived from French preude femme (wise woman).[1]

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prude (invariable)

  1. Of someone who cares excessively about pudor and decency, and easily gets outraged.

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  • prude in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

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Verb

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prude

  1. third-person singular present indicative of prudere

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  1. 1.0 1.1 prude in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

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Middle English

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Noun

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prude

  1. (South West Midlands, Southern) Alternative form of pryde (proudness)

Old French

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prude

  1. feminine singular of pruz