père-la-pudeur
French, noun/pɛʁ.la.py.dœʁ/
père-la-pudeur is spelled P-È-R-E-L-A-P-U-D-E-U-R (12 letters). Père-la-pudeur is a French masculine noun meaning “a prude” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Homme à la morale rigide”.
What does père-la-pudeur mean in English?
noun
- 1
derogatorymasculinea prude
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Homme à la morale rigide.
noun: 1. Homme à la morale rigide.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of père-la-pudeur
- pères-la-pudeur plural
- père la pudeur alternative
- pères la pudeur plural
- Père-la-pudeur
- père-la-pudeur
- mère-la-pudeur feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce père-la-pudeur?
- /pɛʁ.la.py.dœʁ/
- \pɛʁ la py.dœʁ\
- \pɛʁ.la.py.dœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.