Bawdy

Definition: Bawdy

Bawdy

Adjective

1. Humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language".

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bawdy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Bawdy

Impurity

Adjective: impure; unclean; (dirty); 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.

Crosswords: Bawdy

The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bawdy Bedside Reader (reference)

• Bawdy Tales (reference)

• Bawdy Talk [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Improper Limericks: An Original Bawdy Collection (reference)

• Letterforms: Bawdy, Bad and Beautiful: The Evolution of Hand-Drawn, Humorous, Vernacular, and Experimental Type (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• My Thing Is My Own: Bawdy Songs of Thomas D'Urfey (reference)

• The Art of the Bawdy Song (reference)

• Bawdy Elizabethan Evening in Merrie Olde England (reference)

• Nuaghty & Bawdy Songs (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "bawdy": bawdy house ♦ bawdy talk. Additional references.

Beginning with "bawdy": bawdy-house.

Albanian

që nuk ka hije, i pistë (dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, grubby, miry, sordid, squalid, waste). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاحش (dirty, filthy, obscene, ribald, shameless, vulgar), ‏فاسق (debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, don juan, fornicator, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, lubricious, miscreant, obscene, philanderer, profligate, punk, raffish, rakish, scab, scarlet, slippery, unchaste, uninhibited, wanton), ‏فاجر (dissipated, dissolute, lecher, libertine, licentious, obscene, obscenity, profligate, rake, rakish, wanton), ‏داعر (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, light, mean, naughty, obscene, obscenity, pornographic, raffish, salacious, scarlet, sensual, wanton). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неприличен (foul, immodest, improper, indecent, indelicate, lewd, nasty, naughty, off color, off colour, ribald, salacious, shameful, smutty, spicy, tasteless, unbecoming, uncomely, unmentionable, unseemly), мръсен (currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile). (various references)

Czech

oplzlý vtip, oplzlý (dirty, gross, impure, lewd, obscene, salacious, scurrilous, uncouth, vile), lascivní (fruity, lascivious). (various references)

Dutch

bordeel (brothel, house of ill fame, whorehouse), huis van plezier (brothel, house of ill fame, whorehouse), hoerenkast (brothel, house of ill fame, whorehouse). (various references)

Esperanto

prostituejo (brothel, house of ill fame, whorehouse). (various references)

Farsi 

مربوطبه جاکشی , هرزه (Dissolute, Harlot, Immoral, Lascivious, Lewd, Libertine, Licentious, Loose, Perverse, Profligate, Prurient, Rake, Rakish, Reprobate, Ribald, Salacious, Sordid), زشت (Awkward, Awry, Backhand, Bad, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Homely, Horrid, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Offensive, Ugly, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Ungraceful, Unhandsome), شنیع (Foul, Heinous, Hideous, Nefarious), بی عفت (Immodest, Light, Unchaste). (various references)

French

bordel, paillard, grivois. (various references)

German

unzüchtig (bawdily, indecent, lecherous, lewd, licentious, licentiously, obscene, unchaste), unflätig (foul-mouthed, nasty, obscene, offensive, offensively, rude, uncouth, vile), derb (blue, broad, coarse, crude, crudely, earthy, inelegant, inelegantly, rank, raw, ribald, sanguinary, stout, strong, tough, uncouth). (various references)

Greek 

αισχρόσ (disgraceful, ignominious, nefarious, obscene, outrageous, salacious, shameful, shocking, smutty, wicked), ανήθικοσ (immoral, nonmoral, obscene, profligate). (various references)

Hebrew 

מצחיק ו�'ס, של � בול פ�" (obscene, salacious). (various references)

Hungarian

trágár (dirty, gross, impious, indecent, nasty, obscene, pornographic, ribald, scurrilous, smutty, swinish), erkölcstelen (corrupt, dirty, dissipated, filth, filthy, immoral, lewd, loose, meretricious, profligate, rotten, unmoral, unprincipled, vicious). (various references)

Indonesian

mesum (dirty, immoral, indecent, obscene). (various references)

Italian

osceno (awful, blue, coarse, dreadful, filthy, foul, ghastly, lewd, nasty, obscene, rude). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

淫ら (improper, loose). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

み� ら (improper, loose). (various references)

Manx

neuglen (dirty, imperfect). (various references)

Pig Latin

awdybay.(various references)

Portuguese

pornografia (porn, pornography), obscenidade (blackguardism, dirt, foulness, impurity, indecency, obscene, ordure, ribaldry, scurrility, smut), indecente (indecent, indecorous, nasty, obscene, ribald, risky, scurrilous, unseemly), indecência (naughtiness). (various references)

Romanian

trivialitate (licentiousness, triteness, vulgarism, vulgarity), obscen (dirty, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, indelicate, lewd, lickerish, nasty, obscene, obscenely, ribald, scurrilous, smutty), neruşinare (brass, cheek, effrontery, front, immodesty, impudence, indecency, indecorum, lack of restraint, neck, obsceneness, rudeness, shamelessness), murdar (base, basely, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), indecenţã (immodesty, impropriety, indecency), afemeiat (effeminate, lecherous, Lovelace, smell-smock). (various references)

Russian 

сальный (greasy, lardy, lewd, salacious, sebaceous, tallowy), непристойный (beastly, coarse, dirty, disorderly, greasy, nasty, obscene, pawpaw, ribald, salacious, salty, scurrilous, smutty, unchaste, uncomely, unseemly), похабный (rank). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skaradan (hideous), nepristojan (bawdry, improper, indecent, lewd, racy, rude, scabrous, spicy, unbecoming, vulgar). (various references)

Spanish

verde (dirty, green, greeny, low, lower, naughty, rude, undeveloped, verdant), obsceno (dirty, lewd, nasty, obscene, ribald, smutty). (various references)

Swedish

oanständig (fie-fie, filthy, foul, immodest, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, salacious, scabrous, scurrilous). (various references)

Thai

ตลกลามก. (various references)

Turkish

müstehcen (blue, dirty, filthy, gross, hard core, kinky, loathsome, nasty, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ribald, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, shocking, smutty, suggestive, unprintable), açık saçık (blue, dirty, disorderly, feelthy, filthy, foul, girlie, hard core, immodest, immodestly dressed, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, salty, scabrous, shocking, smutty, spicy). (various references)

Ukrainian

непристойний (bad, beastly, blue, coarse, dirty, fie-fie, foul, graceless, greasy, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, salt, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste), брудний (beastly, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean), паскудний (abject, cheesy, nasty, obscene, scald, trashy, vile). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tục tĩu dâm ô. (various references)

latrina, lustrum, meritorium. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bawdy": bawdyhouse, bawdyhouses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bawdy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aaswdu, Abdy, Badi, Bady, Banwy, bardy, Baudry, Baudy, bauwd, bawty, Bowdry, Bowdy, Bywyd, Gawdy, lawdy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bawd, wady.

-2 letters: aby, bad, bay, dab, daw, day, wab, wad, way, yaw.

-3 letters: ab, ad, aw, ay, ba, by, ya.

+1 letter: bawdry.

+2 letters: bawdily, baywood.

+3 letters: baywoods, bendways, bewrayed, subwayed.

+4 letters: twayblade.

+5 letters: backwardly, backwoodsy, bawdyhouse, swaybacked, twayblades.