bawdy

Noun · Adjective
US[baw-dee]/ˈbɔdi/2 syllables
Synonyms: bawdryoff-colorribald

Open English WordNet

Adjective (1)bawdier, bawdiest

  1. humorously vulgar“bawdy songs”“off-color jokes”“ribald language”Synonyms: off-colorribaldOpposite cleanSimilar dirty

Noun (1)

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

Related words prostitute noun, obscenity noun

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Bawd′y adjective

1. Dirty; foul; — said of clothes. obsolete

It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also.— Geoffrey Chaucer

2. Obscene; filthy; unchaste. “A bawdy story.” Edmund Burke

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

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