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Prudish describes a person, a remark, a rule, or a whole culture that is very easily shocked by sex or by the body, in a way the speaker finds too much. It is an , or at least teasing, adjective. “Don’t be prudish” means “relax — this is not a crime.” You can say a prudish comment, a prudish film board, a prudish uncle. It is weaker than calling someone a (which names the person as a type) and more common in careful writing. Though actually, people sometimes hide a real boundary behind this word: not wanting a sex joke in front of children is not always prudish; the sting of the word is for when the shock seems bigger than the thing itself. Same family as and ; still nothing to do with prudent.
假正經的（對性相關話題；貶義）
原始詞典資料1 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。
prudishadj/ˈpɹuːdɪʃ/
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。