prude

noun
🔊/pruːd/
🔊/pruːd/
(disapproving)
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  1. a person that you think is too easily shocked by things connected with sex正经过度的人;对性问题大惊小怪者;谈性色变者Topics Personal qualitiesc2
    Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French, back-formation from prudefemme, feminine of prud'homme ‘good man and true’, from prou ‘worthy’.