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Grundyism
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English
Etymology
From en Grundy ism, after Mrs Grundy, a minor character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798) who came to personify the tyranny of conventional propriety.
Noun
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narrow and unintelligent conventionalism
Related terms
en Grundified
en Grundyist
Translations
prudery
German: de Prüderie f, de Spießigkeit f
Anagrams
en dgimnrsuy gymnurids
en eponyms