prudish

English

Etymology

prude +‎ -ish

Adjective

prudish (comparative more prudish, superlative most prudish)

of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters

Derived terms

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Translations

exaggeratedly proper

Chinese:
Mandarin: 过分拘谨的
Czech: prudérní (cs)
Danish: sippet, snerpet
Dutch: preuts (nl)
Esperanto: pruda
French: prude (fr), pudibond (fr)
Galician: suiño, encobado
German: prüde (de)
Greek: σεμνότυφος (el) (semnótyfos)

Hungarian: prűd (hu)
Italian: pudico (it)
Norwegian: prippen (no), snerpete, fisefin
Polish: pruderyjny
Portuguese: pudico (pt)
Romanian: pudibond
Russian: жема́нный (ru) (žemánnyj), стыдли́вый (ru) (stydlívyj)
Spanish: pudibundo (es), santurrón, mojigato (es), pacato, cartuchón
Swedish: pryd (sv)
Turkish: bağnaz (tr), mutaassıp (tr), yobaz (tr), iffet taslayan, iffetçi

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