Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Humorously coarse; lewd or risqué.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dirty; filthy.
- Obscene; lewd; indecent; unchaste.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.
- adjective Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of language
Sexual in nature and usually meant to behumorous but consideredrude .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective humorously vulgar
- noun lewd or obscene talk or writing
Etymologies
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Examples
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At first Roger had loved what he called her bawdy sense of humor and her sexuality.
So Hard To Forget Crowe, Evelyn A 1997
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This bibliography is an essential resource for those interested in bawdy songlore in English, French, German and a few other languages thrown in.
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Some called bawdy greetings to the Maiden, or stared around these once-forbidden precincts.
Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995
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It's been described as bawdy — the heroine is a prostitute — but this novel of 19th-century England is about class, medicine, manners and hypocrisy.
Historical British Novels Cynthia Crossen 2010
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It's been described as bawdy — the heroine is a prostitute — but this novel of 19th-century England is about class, medicine, manners and hypocrisy.
Historical British Novels Cynthia Crossen 2010
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It's been described as bawdy — the heroine is a prostitute — but this novel of 19th-century England is about class, medicine, manners and hypocrisy.
Historical British Novels Cynthia Crossen 2010
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It's been described as bawdy — the heroine is a prostitute — but this novel of 19th-century England is about class, medicine, manners and hypocrisy.
Historical British Novels Cynthia Crossen 2010
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He was ready to talk about anything with anybody who shoved along; he had a fund of naughty tropical stories for the so-called bawdy section, and could be as sympathetic and pious as you please with a contrite youngster suffering from last night's debauch.
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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In another room the so-called bawdy section, presided over by the dubious Mr. Hopkins, were discussing topics not adapted to polite ears.
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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But she keeps an assembly, which, I believe, if you was to call a bawdy-house, you would not misname it.
Amelia — Volume 3 Henry Fielding 1730
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