bawdy

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: bawd=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

bawdy, a. 

•  Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.  [1913 Webster]

  "It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also."  [1913 Webster]
•  Obscene; filthy; unchaste.  Burke.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bawdy, adj. & n.
--adj. (bawdier, bawdiest) humorously indecent.
--n. bawdy talk or writing.

Idiom

bawdy-house a brothel.

Derivative

bawdily adv. bawdiness n.

Etymology

BAWD + -Y(1)

THESAURUS

bawdy

Fescennine, Rabelaisian, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, blue, broad, carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, crude, dirty, earthy, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, filthy, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, horny, hot, hysteromaniacal, impure, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lubricious, lubricous, lurid, lustful, lusty, nasty, nymphomaniacal, obscene, offensive, pornographic, priapic, prurient, randy, raunchy, ribald, risque, rude, salacious, satyric, scatological, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual, sexual, sexy, smoking-room, smutty, suggestive, sultry, taboo, unchaste, unclean, uninhibited, unprintable, unrepeatable, unrestrained, vile, vulgar

ROGET THESAURUS

bawdy

Impurity

N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.