prude
noun/pruːd/
/pruːd/
(disapproving)- a person that you think is too easily shocked by things connected with sexTopics Personal qualitiesc2Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French, back-formation from prudefemme, feminine of prud'homme ‘good man and true’, from prou ‘worthy’.
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