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bawdy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bawdy has 1 sense
- bawdy(n = noun.communication) bawdry - lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy" is a kind of dirty word, filth, obscenity, smut, vulgarism
Derived form adjective bawdy1
Adjective bawdy has 1 sense
- bawdy(s = adj.all) off-color, ribald - humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language" Derived forms noun bawd1, noun bawdiness1, noun bawdy1
CIDE DICTIONARY
bawdy, a.
- Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [1913 Webster]"It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also." [1913 Webster]
- Obscene; filthy; unchaste. Burke. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bawdy, adj. & n.
--adj. (bawdier, bawdiest) humorously indecent.
--n. bawdy talk or writing.
--adj. (bawdier, bawdiest) humorously indecent.
--n. bawdy talk or writing.
Idiom
bawdy-house a brothel.
Derivative
bawdily adv. bawdiness n.
Etymology
BAWD + -Y(1)
THESAURUS
bawdy
Fescennine, Rabelaisian, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, blue, broad, carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, crude, dirty, earthy, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, 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, 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, vulgarROGET THESAURUS
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Impurity
N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.
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