bawdy

adjvulgar, dirty

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adj vulgar, dirty

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Philistine

adjective. coarse

X-rated

adjective. pornographic

blue

adjective. vulgar

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adjective. unsophisticated

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "soiled, dirty, filthy," from bawd + -y (2). Meaning "lewd" is from 1510s, from notion of "pertaining to or befitting a bawd;" usually of language (originally to talk bawdy).

Related: Bawdily; bawdiness.

Example Sentences for bawdy

His mirth is bawdy jests with the wenches, and, behind the door, bawdy earnest.

As he went out, however, the conjurer paid him a most bawdy compliment.

I will sing a bawdy song, sir, because your verjuice face is melancholy, to make liquor go down glib.

I am sick of chattering, playing dice, going to bawdy houses, and making vain reports to the Florentine Wool-staplers.

So one laughed, and the other cried fie: the third said I was a bawdy captain; and there was all I could get of them.

After all, Ambrose, scarcely a step closer, could recall clearly every word of the bawdy tales!

By my troth, Ill go with thee to the lanes end: if bawdy talk offend you, well have very little of it.

A more likely cause is the second story in the Letter, the visit to the bawdy house.

In wine shops and gambling hells and bawdy houses—that's where they live!

That a saloon with a sign reading "Family Entrance" on its side door invariably has a bawdy house upstairs.

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