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Definition: Prude |
PrudeNoun1. A person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references) |
Etymology: Prude \Prude\, noun. [French expression, prudish, originally, discreet, modest; shortened from Old French prudefeme, preudefeme, discreet or excellent woman; Old French preu, prou, excellent, brave de of fete woman. See Prow, adjective, Prowess.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | PRUDE, n. A bawd hiding behind the back of her demeanor. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | A native of Boston. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PrudeSynonym: puritan (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster; prig; charlatan; (deceiver); (fop); flatterer; coquette, prude, puritan. |
Purity | Vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus; Lucretia, Diana; prude. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prude |
| Etymologies containing "prude": Prudhomme. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Prude" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (prude, prudish), Italian (prude). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Look, pervert, prude, it's not my job to label people (Night Court; writing credit: Artur Makarov) | |
Lyrics | I'm not a prude, I just want some respect (Nasty; performing artist: Janet Jackson) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You may be old, you may be a prude, you may be a bigot, you may be his aunt, but it is always pleasant to see a lancer enter your room |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Prude" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prude" is used about 20 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 20 | 78,262 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "prude" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Prude | Last name | 1,000 | 15,375 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "prude": act the prude. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
prude ranch | 38 |
prude | 37 |
prude ranch.com | 6 |
definition prude | 4 |
prude test | 3 |
define prude | 2 |
camp prude ranch summer | 2 |
guest prude ranch | 2 |
prude university | 2 |
camp prude ranch | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | puritan (prudish, puritan, puritanic, puritanical), njeri tepër i matur (pussyfoot). (various references) | |
Arabic | المتحشمة, المتصنع الحياء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | света богородица, превзето скромна жена. (various references) | |
Chinese | 拘谨. (various references) | |
Czech | prudérní èlovìk. (various references) | |
Dutch | nuf. (various references) | |
Esperanto | prudulo, prudulino. (various references) | |
Farsi | متظاهر (Braggadocio, Hypocritical, Ostensive, Ostentatious, Simulator), کوته فکر (Dogmatic, Lowminded, Narrow, Provincial), امل (Prudish). (various references) | |
Finnish | turhankaino ihminen (a prude). (various references) | |
French | prude (prudish), bégueule (prissy, prudish). (various references) | |
German | Prüde (modest, prudish, straitlaced, stuffily). (various references) | |
Greek | σεμνότυφοσ (demure, priggish, prudish, straitlaced, tight laced), φρόνιμοσ (advisable, level, politic, prudent, sensible, sound, wise). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתחס" (hypocrite, mealy mouthed, pharisee, sanctimonious, smarmy), צ וע (demure, homely, humble, lowly, meek, modest, neat, unassuming). (various references) | |
Hungarian | álszemérmes (demure, modest, prudish). (various references) | |
Italian | puritano (puritan, straight-laced), prude. (various references) | |
Manx | fer rochooishagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | udepray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | falar (address, chorus, converse, drone, parley, rhapsodize, say, singsong, speak, talk, tell, to speak). (various references) | |
Romanian | puritan (hot gospeller, precisian, puritan, puritanic), mironosiţã. (various references) | |
Russian | ханжа (hypocrite, Pharisee), человек строгих взглядов, жеманница. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | preterano čedna žena. (various references) | |
Spanish | remilgado (demure, mincing, old-maidish, prim, prissy, squeamish), mojigato (hypocrite, prig, priggish, prudish, sanctimonious), gazmoño (prig, priggish, strait laced). (various references) | |
Swedish | pryd person, pryd (coy, demure, prudish). (various references) | |
Turkish | erdemlilik taslayan tip, aşırı namuslu geçinen kadın, aşırı iffet taslayan kadın. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скромниця, святенниця, охоронець звичаїв (censor). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người đ n b l m ra bộ đoan trang kiểu cách. (various references) | |
Welsh | mursen (coquette). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | preude. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | prude. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prude": prudence, prudences, prudent, prudential, prudentially, prudently, pruderies, prudery, prudes. (additional references) | |
Words containing "prude": imprudence, imprudences, imprudent, imprudently, jurisprudence, jurisprudences, jurisprudent, jurisprudential, jurisprudentially, jurisprudents. (additional references) | |
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"Prude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brude, drude, Pardue, Paudi, Pfrunder, phrade, Prade, Pradeep, Pradel, prd, prder, predi, priden, Pridey, Pridi, Pridie, prode, Prodev, prodge, prodi, Prodip, proude, prouded, Proute, Pruce, prud, prudde, pruden, pruder, prudy, prued, prule, pruse, Prut, prute, psued, puda, pude, puede, purda, Purday, Purdew. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prude" (pronounced pruw"d) |
| 3 | -r uw" d | accrued, brewed, brood, construed, crude, intrude, extrude, misconstrued, obtrude, protrude, rood, rude, screwed, shrewd. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: drupe, duper, perdu. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: dupe, dure, pure, rude, rued. | |
-2 letters: due, dup, ped, per, pud, pur, red, rep, rue, urd. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, er, pe, re, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: burped, drupes, dumper, dupers, dupery, perdue, perdus, poured, prudes, pruned, pureed, purged, purled, purred, pursed, rouped. | |
+2 letters: crumped, dumpers, dumpier, erupted, grouped, grumped, perdues, perdure, peruked, perused, plunder, pounder, predusk, prelude, prevued, produce, prouder, prudent, prudery, puddler, pudgier, purfled, purpled, pursued, reputed, rumpled, slurped, spruced, spudder, spurned, spurred, spurted, supered, trouped, trumped, umpired, undrape, unroped, updater, updried, updries, upgrade, uprated, uptrend, usurped. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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