having or showing too much interest in things connected with sex 好色的;下作的;淫亵的 a prurient interest in the details of a rape case 对强奸案细节的色情兴趣
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘having a mental itching’): from Latin prurient- ‘itching, longing’ and ‘being wanton’, from the verb prurire.