prude

prude怎么读

英式音标：[pru:d]

美式音标：[prud]

prude基本解释

n. 拘守礼仪的人；故做正经的女人

n. (Prude)人名；(英)普鲁德

prude的意思释义

n.

极端或过分拘谨的人，（尤指对性问题）大惊小怪的人；

变形

复数：prudes

英英释义

n.a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum

同义词：puritan

prude用法及例句

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

Don\'t be such a prude.

别那么拘谨。

She always give clients an impression of humourless prude.

她一直都给客户一副不苟言笑、一本正经的印象。

She was such a prude that she was even embarrassed by the sight of naked children.

她正经得出了格，甚至见了赤身露体的孩子也难为情。

例句参考

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The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860. By Christopher Clark (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, ...

The Slave Ship: A Human History

Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. By Lawrence A. Peskin. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins U...

The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860

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Portrait of a Civil Libertarian: The Faith and Fear of Zechariah Chafee, Jr.

Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America\'s First Gilded Age

Review of Fearless in Tibet: The Life of the Mystic Tertön Sogyal by Matteo Pistono

prude词源

prude

prude: [18] Old French prudefemme ‘virtuous woman’ meant literally ‘fine thing of a woman’. It was a lexicalization of the phrase *preu de femme, in which preu meant ‘fine, brave, virtuous’ (its variant prud gave English proud). In the 17th century it was shortened to prude (Molière is the first writer on record as using it), with distinctly negative connotations of ‘overvirtuousness’. It was borrowed into English at the beginning of the 18th century, and for a couple of hundred years continued to be used almost exclusively with reference to women.=> proud

prude (n.)

1704, \"woman who affects or upholds modesty in a degree considered excessive,\" from French prude \"excessively prim or demure woman,\" first recorded in Molière. Perhaps a false back-formation or an ellipsis of preudefemme \"a discreet, modest woman,\" from Old French prodefame \"noblewoman, gentlewoman; wife, consort,\" fem. equivalent of prudhomme \"a brave man\" (see proud); or perhaps a direct noun use of the French adjective prude \"prudish,\" from Old French prude, prode, preude \"good, virtuous, modest,\" a feminine form of the adjective preux. Also occasionally as an adjective in English 18c.