bawdry - definition, synonyms and pronunciation

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lewd or obscene talk or writing“it was smoking-room bawdry”“they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy”Synonyms: bawdyType of obscenity, smut

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Bawd′ry (…), noun

Origin: OE. baudery, OF. bauderie, balderie, boldness, joy. See Bawd.

1. The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

2. Illicit intercourse; fornication. William Shakespeare

3. Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. “The pert style of the pit bawdry.” Sir Richard Steele

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54