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bawdry

[ baw-dree ]

noun

  1. Archaic. lewdness; obscenity; bawdiness.
  2. Obsolete.
    1. the business of a prostitute.
    2. illicit intercourse; fornication.


bawdry

/ ˈɔːɪ /

noun

  1. archaic.
    obscene talk or language
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of bawdry1

First recorded in 1350–1400, bawdry is from the Middle English word bawdery. See bawd, -ery
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Example Sentences

We sought the Serjeant out; and Bono and I came across him sitting with white privates of the 14th, singing bawdry which I shall not repeat.

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Volumes which not many years after, when a new system of affairs had occurred to supplant this long-idolised “order of chivalry,” Roger Ascham plainly asserted only taught “open manslaughter and bold bawdry.”

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The city of Bristol is but a great house of bawdry.”

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I am sorry that Hamlet’s line to the Player, “He’s for a jig, or a tale of bawdry, or else he sleeps,” has been cut out.

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Letters Swift wrote to his beloved "Stella" – Esther Johnson – and her companion, Rebecca Dingley, reveal in detail Swift's mixture of bawdry and baby talk.

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