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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. lewd or obscene talk or writing;
- Example: "it was smoking-room bawdry"
- Example: "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
[syn: bawdry, bawdy]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. humorously vulgar;
- Example: "bawdy songs"
- Example: "off-color jokes"
- Example: "ribald language"
[syn: bawdy, off-color, ribald]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bawdy
    adj 1: humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes";
           "ribald language" [syn: bawdy, off-color, ribald]
    n 1: lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room
         bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
         [syn: bawdry, bawdy]