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Definition of prude noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

prude

noun

/pruːd/

/pruːd/

(disapproving)

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a person that you think is too easily shocked by things connected with sexTopics Personal qualitiesc2
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French, back-formation from prudefemme, feminine of prud'homme ‘good man and true’, from prou ‘worthy’.

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