Bawdy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "bawdy":
     Fescennine, Rabelaisian, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, blue, broad,
     carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, crude, dirty,
     earthy, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, filthy, fleshly,
     foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, goatish,
     gross, gynecomaniacal, horny, hot, hysteromaniacal, impure,
     indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ithyphallic, lascivious,
     lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lubricious, lubricous,
     lurid, lustful, lusty, nasty, nymphomaniacal, obscene, offensive,
     pornographic, priapic, prurient, randy, raunchy, ribald, risque,
     rude, salacious, satyric, scatological, scurrile, scurrilous,
     sensual, sexual, sexy, smoking-room, smutty, suggestive, sultry,
     taboo, unchaste, unclean, uninhibited, unprintable, unrepeatable,
     unrestrained, vile, vulgar