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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne