prudeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: pro͞od, IPA: /pɹuːd/
• 韻: -uːd

名詞

prude (plural prudes)

1. A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, IV [Uniform ed., p. 62]:

     He became shy. "I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady." For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude.

   • 1991, Robert M. Pirsig, Lila:

     If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man.

同意語

• prig
• goody-goody
• puritan
• celibacist
• erotophobe
• antisexualist

派生語

関連する語

• proud

Further reading

• “prude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “prude”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

形容詞

prude (comparative more prude, superlative most prude)

1. Prudish.

アナグラム

• Dupre, drupe, duper, perdu, red up, red-up