prude

PRUDE

saeva (the proper word); fastidiosa.

prude: perh. tetrĭca puella s. mulier: cf. Ov. A. A. 1, 721 (yet the sense there is severe or puritanical rather than prudish). Or expr. by circuml., *putida quadam pudicitiae ostentatione mulier; affectatae cujusdam severitatis mulier.