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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BAWD'Y, a. Obscene; filthy, unchaste; applied to language.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (bawdier; -est) Etymology: bawd Date: 1513 1. obscene, lewd 2. boisterously or humorously indecent • bawdily adverb • bawdiness noun II. noun Etymology: probably from ¹bawdy Date: 1656 bawdry 2

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. (bawdier, bawdiest) humorously indecent. --n. bawdy talk or writing. Phrases and idioms: bawdy-house a brothel. Derivatives: bawdily adv. bawdiness n. Etymology: BAWD + -Y(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bawdy Bawd"y, a. 1. Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.] It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also. --Chaucer. 2. Obscene; filthy; unchaste. ``A bawdy story.'' --Burke.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(bawdier, bawdiest) A bawdy story or joke contains humorous references to sex. (OLD-FASHIONED) = lewd ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Obscene, filthy, indecent, impure, lewd, smutty, unchaste.

Moby Thesaurus

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