Bawdry

Definition: Bawdry

Bawdry

Noun

1. Lewd or obscene talk or writing; " it was smoking-room bawdry" or "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy".

Date "bawdry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Bawdry \Bawd"ry\, noun. [from Old English expression baudery, Old French bauderie, balderie, boldness, joy. See Bawd.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Bawdry

Synonym: bawdy (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impurity	Noun: impurity; uncleanness; (filth); immodesty; grossness; Adjective: indelicacy, indecency; impudicity; obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bawdry

Specialty definitions using "bawdry": FREE AND EASY JOHNS ♦ UNWASHED BAWDRY. (references)

"Bawdry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bawdry" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

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Language		Translations for "bawdry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gjëra që nuk kanë hije. (various references)

Arabic		‏فجور (dissipation, dissoluteness, immorality, libertinism, licence, license, profligacy, wantonness, whoredom). (various references)

Bulgarian		сводничество (procuration), своднича (bawd, pander, pimp, procure), нецензурен език. (various references)

Hebrew		� בול פ�" (bawdiness, obscenity, profanity, ribaldry, scurrility, smut). (various references)

Hungarian		feslett életmód, erkölcstelen viselkedés (unprincipled conduct). (various references)

Pig Latin		awdrybay

Portuguese		obsceno (dirty, filthy, immodest, impurity, indecent assault, obscene, ribald, scabrous, unclean), devasso (dissolute, free ticket, immoral, lecherous, lewd, libertine, loose, lothario, playboy, profligate, rakish, roue, salacious, wanton, wasteful). (various references)

Romanian		porcãrie (carrion, filth, infamy, piggery, piggishness, pigwash, swinishness), obscenitãţi (ribaldry), mãscãrie (ribaldry). (various references)

Russian		сводничать (bawd, pander, pimp), непристойности (smut). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skaradan govor, nepristojno govoriti, nepristojan (bawdy, improper, indecent, lewd, racy, rude, scabrous, spicy, unbecoming, vulgar). (various references)

Spanish		alcahuetería. (various references)

Turkish		pezevenklik (panderism, poncing, procuring), namussuzluk (dishonesty, dishonorableness, dishonourableness, ignominy, lewdness, rascality, tortuosity, unchastity), iffetsizlik (impurity, unchastity), açık saçık söz (four-letter word). (various references)

Ukranian		розпуста (debauch, harlotry, lechery, ordure, ribaldry, wantonness, whoredom), непристойність (coarseness, filth, immodesty, impurity, indecency, lewdness, obsceneness, obscenity, opprobriousness, ordure, salacity, scurrility, smut), паскудство. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Bawdry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badri, Baldrey, Baudry, bidry, Bowdry. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "bawdry" (pronounced 'Bawd"ry'): Almry, Avowry, Aweary, Balloonry, Barry, Blurry, Chantry, Charry, Cheerry, Chowry, Commandry, Comminatory, Consuetudinary, Consulary, Coquetry, Cowries, Cowry, Cymry, Dairy, Disglory, Dismarry, Dowry, Farry, Firry, Forwweary, foundry, Frory, furry, Gharry, hagberry, Henry, Hostry, intermarry, Intervary, Jerry, Jewry, Kimry, Knarry, Knurry, Lampoonry, Lardry, Larry, Lary, Lepry, lory, Lowry, Lurry, merry, miscarry, Murry, Outweary, Overcarry, Overwary, overweary, Peltry, Querry, Recarry, remarry, Rory, Saltatory, saury, Serry, sherry, Skerry, Skurry, sorry, Sory, Sparry, Spurry, starry, Terry, Unmarry, unwary, unweary, Urry, vagary, vainglory, Vintry, Whirry, Whurry. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-r-w-y"
	-1 letter: bawdy.
	-2 letters: awry, bard, bawd, brad, braw, bray, darb, drab, draw, dray, wady, ward, wary, yard.
	-3 letters: aby, arb, bad, bar, bay, bra, dab, daw, day, dry, rad, raw, ray, rya, wab, wad, war, way, wry, yar, yaw.
	-4 letters: ab, ad, ar, aw, ay, ba, by, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-r-w-y"
	+2 letters: bewrayed.
	+4 letters: backwardly.
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