Meaning of BAWD
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| | Definition: | | [n] a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money |
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| | Synonyms: | | cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, trollop, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| | See Also: | | adult female, call girl, camp follower, demimondaine, floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker, white slave, woman | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Bawd\, n. [OE. baude, OF. balt, baut, baude, bold, merry,
perh. fr. OHG. bald bold; or fr. Celtic, cf. W. baw dirt. Cf.
{Bold}, {Bawdry}.]
A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women
for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person;
-- usually applied to a woman.
\Bawd\, v. i.
To procure women for lewd purposes.
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| | Related Terms: | | fancy man, gigolo, harlot, hooker, madam, maquereau, meretrix, moll, nightwalker, pander, panderer, pimp, poule, procurer, procuress, streetwalker, white slaver, whore |
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