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Mrs Grundy

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Mrs Grundy

▶noun (pl. Mrs Grundys) a person with very conventional standards of propriety.

– origin C19: a person repeatedly mentioned in T. Morton's comedy Speed the Plough (1798).

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