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Definition: Prudish |
PrudishAdjective1. Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prudish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: PrudishSynonyms: priggish (adj), prim (adj), prissy (adj), puritanical (adj), square-toed (adj), straightlaced (adj), straitlaced (adj), tight-laced (adj), victorian (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prudish |
| English words defined with "prudish": Bowdlerism ♦ prudishly, puritanically ♦ Victorian age. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prudish": Prude. (references) |
| "Prudish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 82.86% of the time. "Prudish" is used about 35 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 82.86% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 17.14% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
prudish | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prudish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | preuts (modest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | puritan (prude, puritan, puritanic, puritanical), tepër i matur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مفرط الإحتشام (squeamish), محتعفف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | прекалено скромен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prudérní (stuffy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zedig (chaste, modest), preuts (modest), nuffig (modest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | pruda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | spanskur (modest), smásárur (modest), kvettutur (modest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | امل (Prude), بااحتیاط (Careful, Circumspect, Discreet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | turhankaino. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bégueule (prissy, prude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | prüde (modest, prude, straitlaced, stuffily), zimperlich (demure, finicky, mincing, modest, nervous, prissy, puling, soft, squeamish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σεμνότυφοσ (demure, priggish, prude, straitlaced, tight laced). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מצט ע (demure, prim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | álszemérmes (demure, modest, prude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | genit (firtatious, missish, prim, vain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | moralista (moralist, moralistic, prig, priggish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 上"振る (to be prudish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じょうひ"ぶる (to be prudish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | udishpray recatadoemexcesso, hipócrita (cant, canting, dissembler, double, double-dealer, double-faced, hypocrite, hypocritical, insincere, pecksniffian, sanctimonious, self-righteous, two-faced, two-tongued), afetadamentepudico. (various references) care face pe ruşinosul, care face pe pudicul. (various references) не в меру щепетильный. (various references) preterano čedna, koji se prenemaže. (various references) melindroso (choosey, choosy, dainty, finicky, fussy, modest, nice, prissy, squeamish), dengoso (faddish, faddist, faddy, modest). (various references) pryd (coy, demure, prude). (various references) iffet taslayan, erdemlilik taslayan, aşırı namuslu geçinen. (various references) святенницький (cant, churchy, goody goody, hypocritical, sanctified, sanctimonious), надмірно скромний, манірний (affected, angular, ceremonious, donnish, finical, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, offish, prim, smug, starchy). (various references) l m bộ đoan trang kiểu cách. (various references) mursennaidd (affected). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prudish": prudishly, prudishness, prudishnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Prudish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paulish, prattish, proddys, proudies, pruddish, prudies, prunish, Purdies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prudish" (pronounced pruw"dish) |
| 3 | -d i sh | brandish, faddish, horseradish, outlandish, radish, reddish, Standish. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-h-i-p-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: drips, hurds, puris, sirup. | |
-3 letters: dips, dish, drip, dups, hips, phis, pish, puds, puri, purs, push, rhus, rids, rips, rush, ship, shri, spud, spur, surd, urds. | |
-4 letters: dip, dis, duh, dui, dup, hid, hip, his, hup, ids, phi, pis, piu, psi, pud, pur, pus, rid, rip, sip, sir, sri, sup, ups, urd. | |
-5 letters: hi. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-h-i-p-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: prudishly. | |
+3 letters: dimorphous, ophiuroids. | |
+4 letters: hesperidium, prudishness, republished, shipbuilder, sulphurised. | |
+5 letters: guardianship, pulchritudes, shipbuilders. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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