Mrs Grundy is a figurative name for an extremely conventional or priggish person, a personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety. A tendency...
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up grundy or Grundy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Grundy or Grundey may refer to: Grundy, Virginia, a town Grundy Center, Iowa, a city Grundy County...
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she could get if she was free, making her soap opera debut as the nasty Mrs. Sayre on Valiant Lady, who schemed to prevent her daughter from marrying...
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List of Archie Comics characters (redirect from Miss Grundy)
this appearance, she is Mrs. Mimi Grundy, the married principal of Riverdale High School. She is reintroduced as "Miss Grundy" in Pep Comics #30 (April...
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to that of writer Josephine Van De Grift, columnist of Demi-Tasse and Mrs. Grundy.. Sheldon Ocker: Covered the Cleveland Indians for the Beacon Journal...
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needed] Synonyms of "prude" include: goody-goody (in certain contexts) and Mrs Grundy. Antisexualism Christian Right Erotophobia Feminist sex wars Fuddy-duddy...
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incomprehensible goddess of the Erewhonians. Her name is an anagram of Grundy (from Mrs. Grundy, a character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough). In a 1945...
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mitigation or remorse of voice?" Prissy Prim and proper Prude/prudish Mrs Grundy Old fashioned values Victorian Goody-goody or goody-two-shoes Blue law...
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Newspapers.com. p. 5. Van De Grift, Josephine (July 31, 1925). "Demi-Tasse & Mrs. Grundy column". The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio). p. 12. Retrieved September...
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with grundyism, giving rise to the eponym. "Mothergrundy.org (Archived copy)". Archived from the original on 2009-07-10. Retrieved 2019-05-05. Mrs Grundy...
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