prude

FREQ #21516

n. 拘守礼仪的人, 故作正经的人

发音

其它 /pɹuːd/

词形变化

prudes 复数 prudes more prude 比较级 most prude 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Prudish.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

puritan

词源

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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