bawdy

  • 21bawdy house — bawdy ,house noun count an old word meaning brothel …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 22bawdy house — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: bawdy (II) + house : brothel …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 23bawdy — I. adjective (bawdier; est) Etymology: bawd Date: 1513 1. obscene, lewd 2. boisterously or humorously indecent • bawdily adverb • bawdiness noun II …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 24bawdy — Synonyms and related words: Fescennine, Rabelaisian, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, blue, broad, carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, crude, dirty, earthy, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, filthy, fleshly, foul, foul mouthed, foul… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 25bawdy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. coarse, ribald, gross, lewd. See impurity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. ribald, indecent, earthy, risqu?; see lewd 1 , 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. indecent, lewd, coarse, improper, obscene …

    English dictionary for students

  • 26bawdy — bawd·y || bɔːdɪ adj. lewd, coarse, obscene …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 27bawdy — adjective (bawdier, bawdiest) humorously indecent. noun humorously indecent talk or writing. Derivatives bawdily adverb bawdiness noun …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 28bawdy — a. Obscene, filthy, indecent, impure, lewd, smutty, unchaste …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 29bawdy — adj 1. obscene, pornographic, vulgar, filthy, dirty, smutty, Sl. raunchy, scatalogical; gross, crude, coarse; indecent, ribald, risque, off color, lewd; shameless, immodest, indecorous, unseemly, improper, indelicate, rude. 2. lustful,… …

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  • 30bawdy — bawd•y [[t]ˈbɔ di[/t]] adj. bawd•i•er, bawd•i•est, n. 1) indecent; lewd; obscene 2) coarse or obscene talk or writing • Etymology: 1505–15 bawd′i•ly, adv. bawd′i•ness, n …

    From formal English to slang

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