Meaning of BAWDY
| Pronunciation: | | 'bodee
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- [n] lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
- [adj] humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"
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| | Synonyms: | | bawdry, dirty, off-color, ribald |
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| | See Also: | | obscenity, vulgarism | |
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| | Definition: | | \Bawd"y\, a.
1. Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.]
It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also.
--Chaucer.
2. Obscene; filthy; unchaste. ``A bawdy story.'' --Burke.
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| | Related Terms: | | animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, blue, broad, carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, crude, dirty, earthy, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, Fescennine, filthy, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, horny, hot, hysteromaniacal, impure, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, lusty, nasty, nymphomaniacal, obscene, offensive, pornographic, priapic, prurient, Rabelaisian, randy, raunchy, ribald, risque, rude, salacious, satyric, scatological, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, sexual, sexy, smoking-room, smutty, suggestive, sultry, taboo, unchaste, unclean, uninhibited, unprintable, unrepeatable, unrestrained, vile, vulgar |
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