Prurient

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prurient \Pru"ri*ent\, a. [L. pruries, -entis, p. pr. of prurire
     to itch. Cf. {Freeze}.]
     Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious
     curiosity or propensity; lustful. -- {Pru"ri*ent*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           The eye of the vain and prurient is darting from object
           to object of illicit attraction.         --I. Taylor.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prurient
       adj : characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of
             her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful
             nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a
             salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: {lubricious},
             {lustful}, {salacious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "prurient":
     Cyprian, Fescennine, Paphian, agape, agog, all agog, animal,
     aphrodisiomaniacal, athirst, bawdy, blue, burning with curiosity,
     carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent,
     consumed with curiosity, consumed with desire, coveting, craving,
     crude, curious, debauched, devoured by desire, dirty, ejaculatory,
     erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fervid, filthy, fleshly,
     foul, ghoulish, goatish, gossipy, gross, gynecomaniacal, horny,
     hot, hot-blooded, hungering, hungry, hysteromaniacal, indecent,
     inquiring, inquisitive, interested, itching, itchy, ithyphallic,
     lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lickerish,
     loose, low, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, mad with lust,
     morbid, morbidly curious, nymphomaniacal, obscene, open-eyed,
     openmouthed, orgasmic, orgastic, overcurious, passionate,
     pornographic, priapic, quizzical, rakehell, randy, ribald, ruttish,
     salacious, satyric, scopophiliac, scurrilous, sensual, sex-starved,
     sexual, sexy, smutty, steamy, suggestive, supercurious, thirsting,
     thirsty, titillating, unsatisfied, vile, voluptuous, voyeuristic,
     vulgar