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bawdy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

bawdy (comparativebawdier or more bawdy, superlativebawdiest or most bawdy)

• Obscene; filthy; unchaste. [from 15th Century]
• (of language) Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.

Noun

bawdy (plural bawdies)

• A bawdy or lewd person.
  • ✤ The Bawdies were girls who danced naked on a ramp in the middle of a room full of tables with tops the size of pie plates.¹
  • ✤ Our scholarly studies and discoveries about bodies and bawdies and the forbidden mysteries of S-E-X proved that participatory education had to be the very best.²

Etymology

From bawd + -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbɔːdi/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• (US) IPA: /ˈbɔ.di/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈbɑ.di/
• Homophone: body (cot–caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔːdi

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Footnotes

1. 1983, Richard Hoyt, The Siskiyou Two-step, page 78: ↩

2. 2001, Bill Rinaldi, You Can If You Think You Can: The Power of Thinking Big, page 37: ↩

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