prude

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 pro͞od

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Prudish.

词形变化

prudes plural more prude comparative most prude superlative

词汇关系

反义词
libertine rake

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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