noun
prig, puritan, old maid, prudish person, prune*, priss*, sourpuss*, Mrs. Grundy*, stick-in-the-mud*, spoilsport*, wet blanket*, bluenose*, goody-goody*, tattletale*.
See prude in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
A person who is too much concerned with being proper, modest, or righteous:
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