Usually means: Excessively proper or modest behavior.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. prudish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prudish: Merriam-Webster
  3. prudish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prudish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prudish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prudish: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prudish, prudish: Wordnik
  8. prudish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. prudish: Wiktionary
  10. prudish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prudish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prudish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Prudish, prudish: Dictionary.com
  14. prudish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prudish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prudish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prudish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prudish: Rhymezone
  19. Prudish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prudish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prudish: FreeDictionary.org
  22. prudish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prudish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. prudish: Legal dictionary

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  1. prudish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. prudish: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prudish: Urban Dictionary

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

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