An uptight person, usually but not always female, usually but not always of conservative mores, who reacts with shock, feigned or otherwise, at other people's violations of decorum, propriety, morality, and so forth.
Someone got up at the PTA meeting and suggested the school hand out condoms to teenagers. The pearl clutchers in the audience nearly went into cardiac arrest.
by Emdeecee December 10, 2007
An extremely easily-offended person, especially to the point of histrionic screaming and grandstanding.
by Nixie Flatline February 7, 2018
by John D. Ongh November 14, 2018