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prudish

adj
/ˈpɹuːdɪʃ/

Etymology

From prude + -ish.

  1. derived from prōde
  2. derived from prude
  3. borrowed from prude
  4. suffixed as prudish — “prude + -ish”

Definitions

  1. Of excessive propriety

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

    • Near-synonyms: prim, priggish, prissy; straight-laced; puritanical
    • Young people who are close to writing off the Democratic Party as a dinosaur, as a gerontocracy of prudish abuelos who gave birth by immaculate conception, may be in for a pleasant surprise.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at prudish. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01prudish02shocked03affected04impress05impression06vague07precise08prim

A definitional loop anchored at prudish. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at prudish

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA