Definitions

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  • noun A trustworthy citizen; a skilled workman. See Citation under 3d commune, 1.

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  • noun A trustworthy citizen.
  • noun A skilled workman.

Etymologies

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French prud'homme. Compare prude.

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Examples

  • Je comprends, peut-etre I will just send msr. prudhomme a short little note & photo.

    Leaving Town Part II: This Time, It's Personal BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • You see those colorfull prudhomme got some plomb dans la cervelle

    result 2007

  • In Bonham, Frankham, and Pridham the suffix - ham has been substituted for the French homme of bonhomme, franc homme, prudhomme, while Jerningham is a perversion of the personal name Jernegan or Gernegan, as Garnham is of Gernon,

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • Coustans begot on his wife an heir male, who had to name Constantine, who was thereafter a prudhomme much great.

    Old French Romances William Morris 1865

  • She laughed to scorn the notion of a nunnery; and laughed to scorn equally the notion of marrying any knight, however much of a prudhomme, whom she had yet seen.

    Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847

  • ..armstrong comment:- well, merci monsieur prudhomme...i told you everything would be awesome on my return, n'est pas ?

    Weird Style: Cast-Offs and Bolt-Ons BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • ..ya know, frilly, you could go a long way to gettin' closer to a particular pair a' bib-shorts if you were good enough w/ yer 'feminine wiles' to sweet talk christian prudhomme into lettin' astana into le tour...

    Leaving Town Part II: This Time, It's Personal BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • At which little Arnulf was as proud as if he had done it himself; and the châtelain sent word to Baldwin that the new-comer was a prudhomme of no common merit; while the heart of the Count of Guisnes became as water; and his knights, both those who were captives and those who were not, complained indignantly of the unchivalrous trick of the Danes, -- how villanous for men on foot, not only to face knights, but to bring them down to their own standing ground by basely cutting off their horses 'heads!

    Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847

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  • A trustworthy citizen; a skilled workman.

    May 12, 2008