prudish
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
/ˈpɹuːdɪʃ/
Definition of prudish
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters.
“Near-synonyms: prim, priggish, prissy; straight-laced; puritanical”
“Young people who are close to writing off the Democratic Party as a dinosaur, as a gerontocracy of prudish abuelos who gave birth by immaculate conception, may be in for a pleasant surprise.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From prude + -ish.
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