-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