bawdy
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di adjective
1.
indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
noun
2.
coarse or indecent talk or writing; bawdry; bawdiness: a collection of Elizabethan bawdy.
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| —adj , bawdier, bawdiest | |
| 1. | (of language, plays, etc) containing references to sex, esp to be humorous |
| —n | |
| 2. | obscenity or eroticism, esp in writing or drama |
| 'bawdily | |
| —adv | |
| 'bawdiness | |
| —n | |
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Bawdy
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Word Origin & History
bawdy
late 14c., "soiled, dirty, filthy." Meaning "lewd" is from 1510s, from bawd (q.v.), with sense of "pertaining to, or befitting a bawd;" usually of language (originally to talk bawdy).
"Bawdy Basket, the twenty-third rank of canters, who carry pins, tape, ballads and obscene books to sell." [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1785]
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Example sentences
He encounters an often hilarious and bawdy but ultimately bleak metropolis that looks and sounds disturbingly familiar.
Adds a bawdy place to those premises deemed a common nuisance.
You'd tell it all-you'd quote the memos and the research reports, recount the blunders, even gossip about the bawdy road trips.
He peddled them about town every place, bawdy houses and all.
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