bawdry

Thus, Brooks lumps 1601 with Mark Twain's "bawdry," and interprets it simply as another indication of frustration.

Well, I like a little innocent mirth myself, but never could endure bawdry.

This will prove rare sport, to see how the poet's genius will grapple with this bawdry!

It is also noteworthy that, for the period, the bawdry is "cut" to the lowest limit.

He was primed with the letter-accounts; he made her dot her amorous I's and cross her bawdry T's.