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Definition: Prudery |
PruderyNoun1. Excessive or affected modesty. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prudery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Etymology: Prudery \Prud"er*y\, noun; plural Pruderies. [French expression pruderie. See Prude.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A quality that displays a lack of modesty as a wig does a loss of hair. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
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Synonyms: PruderySynonyms: primness (n), prudishness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Stiffness, formality, buckram; prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism; mauvais honte, false shame. |
Fastidiousness | Prudery. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prudery |
| English words defined with "prudery": Pruderies. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened. |
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| "Prudery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prudery" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "prudery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملاحظة متطرفة بتكلف, حشمة (decency, reservation, seemliness), تحشم, عفة (chastity, pureness, righteousness, sagacity, virtue), طهارة (asepsis, candor, candour, chastity, honor, honour, innocence, pureness, purgation, purification, purity, refinement, righteousness, saintliness, tidiness, virtue), إحتشام متكلف, إحتشام (decency, decorum, modesty, propriety, seemliness, squeamishness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фалшива скромност, превзета скромност. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کوته فکری , تظاهر (Display, Grimace, Ostentation, Pretense, Pretension, Semblance), امل بودن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pudicité, pruderie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zimperlichkeit (prissiness, stuffiness), prüderie (prudishness, stuffiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σεμνοτυφία (primness, prudishness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | prüdéria, kényeskedés (affectation, priggishness, prudishness, queasiness), álszemérem (false shame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pudicizia (modesty), ritrosia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | rochooishaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uderypray afetação de virtude. (various references) pudicitate prefãcutã (prudishness), ruşinare afectatã. (various references) напускная скромность, притворная стыдливость, излишняя щепетильность. (various references) mojigatería (hypocrisy, priggishness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony). (various references) namusluluk taslama, iffet taslama, aşırı erdemlilik taslama. (various references) напускна скромність. (various references) tính l m bộ đoan trang kiểu cách. (various references) mursendod (affectation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Prudery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drudery, paradero, Peuterey, Pfrunder, plumery, prder, predir, Pridey, prodere, provery, pruder, puder, Purday, rudery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prudery" (pronounced pruw"derē) |
| 3 | -d er ē | boundary, camaraderie, embroidery, powdery, quandary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-p-r-r-u-y" | |
-1 letter: dupery, purred. | |
-2 letters: derry, drupe, dryer, duper, perdu, perdy, perry, prude, pryer, purer, redry, ruder, updry. | |
-3 letters: dupe, dure, durr, dyer, prey, pure, purr, pyre, rude, rued, ruer. | |
-4 letters: dey, dry, due, dup, dye, err, ped, per, pry, pud, pur, pye, red, rep, rue, rye, urd, yep, yup. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, er, pe, re, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-p-r-r-u-y" | |
+3 letters: eurypterid, perdurably. | |
+4 letters: eurypterids, purportedly. | |
+5 letters: procedurally, reproducibly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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