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adjective
1.
indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
noun
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coarse or indecent talk or writing; bawdry; bawdiness: a collection of Elizabethan bawdy.
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Bawdy
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Example Sentences
- At any moment, it seemed, their chorus of belly laughs and bawdy one-liners could give way to a belching contest.
- For instance, some bachelorette parties have become bawdy enough to make men blush, while some bachelor parties have became tamer.
- His political and social commentary catered to the bawdy tastes of the time.
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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).
EXPAND"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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