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Bawdy

Bawdy Meaning & Definition
Bawdy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bawdy?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bawdy: bawdry | dirty | off-color | ribald

Related Terms | Find terms related to Bawdy: 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

See Also | obscenity | vulgarism

Bawdy In Webster's Dictionary

\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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