MRS. GRUNDY


Meaning of MRS. GRUNDY in English

-ˈgrəndē, -di noun

( plural mrs. grundys also mrs. grundies )

Usage: usually capitalized M&G

Etymology: from Mrs. Grundy, character alluded to in the play Speed the Plough (1798) by Thomas Morton died 1838 English playwright

: a person marked by a narrowly conventional outlook or by prudishness or by stiff intolerance of any breach of propriety

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