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    Prudery is the behaviour or attitude of people who are too easily shocked by sex, and who often make a point of showing it. It is a critic’s word: you use it when you . Writers talk about “Victorian prudery” for a time when anything sexual was hidden and judged. The word names the habit, not the person (the person is a ). It can describe a culture, a law, a school, or a family as well as one face across a table. Like , it is about moral tightness around sex and the body, not about saving money or avoiding a crash.

    假正經、道學氣(貶義;指態度,不是那個人)

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組成prude + -ery; also from French pruderie. First recorded in the early 1700s.

同家族的字

  • prudethe person; prudery is the attitude
  • prudishthe adjective from the same prude stem
  • prudishlythe adverb from the same stem

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

pruderynoun/ˈpɹuːdəɹi/

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    The condition of being prudish; prudishness

  • 2

    Prudish behaviour

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。