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Bawdy   /bˈɔdi/   Listen
Bawdy

adjective
1.
Humorously vulgar.  Synonyms: off-color, ribald.  "Off-color jokes" , "Ribald language"






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"Bawdy" Quotes from Famous Books



... with some young lads in the neighbourhood to go out upon the rake, they steered their course to Whitechapel, and going into a little alehouse, began to drink stoutly, sing bawdy songs, and indulge themselves in the rest of those brutal delights into which such wretches are used to plunge under the name of pleasure. In the height, however, of all their mirth, the people of the house missing out of the till a ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward



Words linked to "Bawdy" :   dirty, obscenity, bawd, bawdiness, filth, smut, dirty word, vulgarism



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