PRUDISH


Meaning of PRUDISH in English

-dish, -dēsh adjective

Etymology: prude (I) + -ish

: marked by prudery : prim , priggish

a very straight-laced, prudish girl

is sexually not so much chaste as prudish — Virginia Woolf

prudish contemporary criticism — W.C.DeVane

• prud·ish·ly adverb

• prud·ish·ness noun -es

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