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prudish adj. priggish, puritanical, old-maidish, prissy, prim, fussy,
squeamish, strait-laced, stiff, rigid, over-nice, over-modest,
over-coy, proper, demure, decorous, formal: Victorian society
was both prudish and prurient.
prune v. clip, cut back, lop, dock, pare (down), trim: If you prune
fruit trees, they bear more abundantly. We have to prune the
entertainment budget.
prurient adj. 1 libidinous, lecherous, lascivious, lewd, lubricious or
lubricous, salacious, lustful, concupiscent, licentious, carnal,
debauched, rakehell, sensual, randy, voluptuous, loose, goatish,
ruttish, Literary Cyprian, Paphian, Archaic lickerish or
liquorish, Slang horny, hot: The press takes a prurient
interest in the private lives of famous people. 2 dirty, lewd,
filthy, pornographic, smutty, obscene, foul, scurrilous, vile,
indecent, gross, lurid, blue, bawdy, ribald, titillating,
suggestive, coarse, vulgar, low, crude, Literary Fescennine:
The police raid uncovered a store of prurient literature, films,
and videos.
pry v. 1 investigate, ferret about, examine, peer, peek, be
inquisitive, inquire or enquire: They pried into her past but
found nothing revealing. 2 intrude, meddle, interfere, Colloq
poke or stick one's nose in or into, snoop, be nosy, nose about
or around, poke about or around: They have no right to pry into
my private affairs.
16.8 pseudonym...
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pseudonym n. nom de plume, nom de guerre, alias, pen-name, stage name,
incognito: 'George Eliot' was the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans.
psyche n. soul, spirit, mind, ‚lan vital, divine spark, life-force,
anima, self, subconscious, unconscious, personality, (essential)
nature, inner man or woman or person, Philosophy pneuma: To
Homer, the psyche was more like an alter ego, or conscience.
psychic adj. 1 psychical, mental, spiritual, psychologic(al),
subjective, psychogenic, cognitive, metaphysic(al),
intellectual, cerebral; philosophic(al): The psychic effect of