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• Bawd

  a woman who maintains a brothel; madam. a prostitute. Archaic. a procuress. Historical Examples What can be more inconsistent than to see a bawd at the sign of the Angel, or a tailor at the Lion? The History of Signboards Jacob Larwood What, have I been bawd to his designs, his property only, a baiting […]

• Bawdy

  indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories. coarse or indecent talk or writing; bawdry; bawdiness: a collection of Elizabethan bawdy. Contemporary Examples Note the bawdy pun in the first example, by which the speaker implies that she came last night. Beauty and Subversion in the Secret Poems of Afghan Women Daniel Bosch April 5, […]

• Bawdily

  indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories. coarse or indecent talk or writing; bawdry; bawdiness: a collection of Elizabethan bawdy. adjective bawdier, bawdiest (of language, plays, etc) containing references to sex, esp to be humorous noun obscenity or eroticism, esp in writing or drama adj. late 14c., “soiled, dirty, filthy,” from bawd + -y […]

• Bawdiness

  indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories. coarse or indecent talk or writing; bawdry; bawdiness: a collection of Elizabethan bawdy. Contemporary Examples The show is roughly at the same level of raunchiness—or even its tamer sister, bawdiness—as a mid-rent gay club. And The Escort of The Year Is… Backstage at The Sex Oscars Scott […]

• Bawdry

  Archaic. lewdness; obscenity; bawdiness. Obsolete. the business of a prostitute. illicit intercourse; fornication. Historical Examples It is also noteworthy that, for the period, the bawdry is “cut” to the lowest limit. Early English Dramatists–Recently Recovered “Lost” Tudor Plays with some others Various He was primed with the letter-accounts; he made her dot her amorous I’s […]

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