Bawdy \Bawd"y\, a.
1. Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.]
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It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also.
--Chaucer.
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2. Obscene; filthy; unchaste. "A bawdy story." --Burke.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bawdy
adj : humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald
language" [syn: off-color, ribald]
n : lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room
bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan
bawdy" [syn: bawdry]
[also: bawdiest, bawdier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, vulgar
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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