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From prude + -ish.
prudish (comparative more prudish, superlative most prudish)
- Of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters.
- Near-synonyms: prim, priggish, prissy; straight-laced; puritanical
exaggeratedly proper
- Bulgarian: превзет (bg) (prevzet), фалшиво скромен (falšivo skromen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 过分拘谨的
- Czech: prudérní (cs), upjatý, škrobený
- Danish: sippet, snerpet
- Dutch: preuts (nl)
- Esperanto: pruda
- Finnish: sievistelevä (fi), kainosteleva, tekosiveä
- French: prude (fr), pudibond (fr)
- Galician: suiño, encobado
- German: prüde (de)
- Greek: σεμνότυφος (el) (semnótyfos)
- Ancient Greek: βαυκός (baukós)
- Hungarian: prűd (hu)
- Italian: pudico (it)
- Norwegian: prippen (no), snerpete, fisefin
- Polish: pruderyjny (pl)
- Portuguese: pudico (pt)
- Romanian: pudibond
- Russian: жема́нный (ru) (žemánnyj), стыдли́вый (ru) (stydlívyj)
- Spanish: pudibundo (es), santurrón (es), mojigato (es), pacato, timorato (es), cartuchón, gazmoño (es)
- Swedish: pryd (sv)
- Turkish: iffetfüruş, namus düşkünü, namus kumkuması
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