Reverse Dictionary: PURITAN

ADJECTIVES
► BLUE-NOSED rigidly, repressively puritan → M19 sl.
► NICE-NELLIE ► NICE-NELLY prudish, puritanical → 1943 sl.
► PRICK-EARED puritanical, priggish → 1707 arch.
► PURE applied mockingly to Puritans or Quakers → 1598 obs,
► SNUFFLE-BUSTING puritanical → L19 Aust. & NZ sl.
► WOWSERISH like a ‘wowser’; prudish, very puritanical  → 1906 Aust. sl.
► WOWSERISTIC prudish, puritanical → 1907 Aust. sl.
► WOWSERY like a ‘wowser’; prudish; very puritanical → c1925 Aust. sl.
► Y.M.C.A. priggish, puritan, ‘goody-goody’ → L19 sl.

ADVERBS
► WOWSERLY puritanically → L19 Aust. & NZ

NOUNS
► NICE-NELLYISM prudishness, excessive gentility, puritanical behaviour or attitudes → 1935 sl.
► WOWSERDOM the world of puritanism → L19 Aust. & NZ
► WOWSERISM the world of puritanism → L19 Aust. & NZ

NOUNS – PERSON
► ANTHEM-CACKLER a dissenter, esp. a Puritan → E18 sl.
► AUTEM-CACKLER a dissenter, esp. a Puritan → E18 sl.
► AUTEM PRICKEAR a dissenter; a Puritan → E18 sl.
► BABES OF GRACE puritanical, sanctified looking persons → Bk1890 sl.
► BANBURY MAN a Puritan; a bigot; a sour or severe man; a hypocrite → Bk1889 obs.
► BANBURY-BLOOD a Puritan; hence, a hypocrite → 1909 UK sl.
► BIG DICK FROM BOSTON one who is puritanical at home but everything goes outside or away from it; a loudmouth tourist → Bk1972 homosexual sl. 
► BLUE NOSE a person who is excessively puritanical; now esp. one who advocates abstinence from alcoholic drinks; a teetotaller → 1928 Amer. dial.
► BLUENOSER a fanatical puritan → 1970s sl.
► GABRIEL a puritan, a killjoy, a ‘bible-thumper’ → 1930s US Black sl.
► GENEVA WEAVER a puritan → Bk1822
► SNUFFLE-BUSTER a puritan → L19 Aust. & NZ sl.
► TANNIE narrow-minded, puritan, small-town woman → 1950s S. Afr. sl.
► TIPPER GORE one who is narrow-minded, puritanical, or repressive → 1990s US teen sl.
► WOWSER a person very puritanical in morals; a spoilsport; one who neither swears, drinks, nor smokes → c1895 Aust. colloq.

VERBS
► WOWSE to behave as a puritan and/or censor → 1900s Aust. sl.