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Prude vs Pruce - What's the difference?

prude | pruce |

As nouns the difference between prude and pruce

is that prude is a person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature while pruce is prussian leather.

prude

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
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    • Synonyms

    * prig * goody-goody * puritan * celibacist * erotophobe * antisexualist

    Derived terms

    * prudery * prudish

    Related terms

    * proud

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    pruce

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Prussian leather
  • * 1700 , John Dryden, Fables, Ancient and Modern: Palamon and Arcite , lines 30–31:
    • Some for Defence would Leathern Bucklers use, / Of folded Hides; and others Shields of Pruce .

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