PRUDISH


Meaning of PRUDISH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pru:dɪʃ ]

If you describe someone as prudish , you mean that they are too easily shocked by things relating to sex.

I’m not prudish but I think these photographs are obscene.

ADJ [ disapproval ]

• prud‧ish‧ness

Older people will have grown up in a time of greater sexual prudishness.

= prudery

N-UNCOUNT

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