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Meaning of 'bawdy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Bawdy [ a.]
- Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.
- Obscene; filthy; unchaste.

Meaning of 'bawdy' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . bawdy [ n]
Meaning (1):
- lewd or obscene talk or writing
Example in sentence:
  • it was smoking-room bawdry;
  • they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy
2 . bawdy [ s]
Meaning (2):
- humorously vulgar
Example in sentence:
  • bawdy songs;
  • off-color jokes;
  • ribald language

Nearby Words:

bawbee bawble bawbling bawcock bawd bawdily bawdiness bawdrick bawdry bawdyhouse

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