Synonyms for prude

Grammar : Noun

Spell : prood

Phonetic Transcription : prud

Définition of prude

Origin : 1704, "woman who affects or upholds modesty in a degree considered excessive," from French prude "excessively prim or demure woman," first recorded in Molière. Perhaps a false back-formation or an ellipsis of preudefemme "a discreet, modest woman," from Old French prodefame "noblewoman, gentlewoman; wife, consort," fem. equivalent of prudhomme "a brave man" (see proud); or perhaps a direct noun use of the French adjective prude "prudish," from Old French prude, prode, preude "good, virtuous, modest," a feminine form of the adjective preux. Also occasionally as an adjective in English 18c.

noun prig

Example sentences :

Angioletto could not decide whether to think him rogue or prude.
Extract from : « Little Novels of Italy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett

"For Heaven's sake, don't be a prude, Moya," Joyce snapped irritably.
Extract from : « The Highgrader » by William MacLeod Raine

And apparently the girl was far from being a prude or a snob.
Extract from : « A Soldier of the Legion » by C. N. Williamson

Oh, I dare say they'd make a good team,—one's a prude and the other a prig.
Extract from : « Under Fire » by Charles King

So much that people thought her cold, some even pronouncing her a prude.
Extract from : « The Free Lances » by Mayne Reid

For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude.
Extract from : « The Longest Journey » by E. M. Forster

My dear Ned, I'm no prude, but there's always some devilment in the blood in these cases.
Extract from : « Simon » by J. Storer Clouston

Whatever might be said of the latter, it was clear that she was no prude.
Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1919 » by Various

It would have been the proper way at first, with such a prude as she!
Extract from : « The White Chief » by Mayne Reid

Education had not made a prude of her nor tainted her clean purity.
Extract from : « Rimrock Trail » by J. Allan Dunn

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