OFFENDsomeone who is very easily shocked by anything relating to sex – used to show disapproval 〔在性方面〕过分拘谨的人,谈性色变者〔含贬义〕 → prudish
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prude• Eline didn't think of herself as a prude but it was clear that Sarah held virtue very lightly indeed.• Possibly I was being a bit of a prude.• Alvin was fastidious and even a bit of a prude.• In the inevitablelectureseries that followed, few would be intrigued by a grossly overweight, fortyish prude.• Sarah's no prude, but she thought some of the sex scenes were quite shocking.• Marriage, that desiccated, pedantic, self-satisfiedprude.
Originprude
(1700-1800)French“good woman, prudish woman”, from prudefemme“good woman”, from Old Frenchprode femme