Associations to the word «Prudish»

Wiktionary

PRUDISH, adjective. Of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters

Dictionary definition

PRUDISH, adjective. Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts".

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus