Crossword clues for bawdry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bawdry \Bawd"ry\, n. [OE. baudery, OF. bauderie, balderie, boldness, joy. See Bawd.]
The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
Illicit intercourse; fornication.
--Shak.Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. ``The pert style of the pit bawdry.''
--Steele.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"obscenity," late 14c., probably from Old French bauderie "boldness, ardor, elation, pride" (see bawd).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust. 2 Illicit intercourse; fornication. 3 obscenity; filthy, unchaste language.
WordNet
n. lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy" [syn: bawdy]
Usage examples of "bawdry".
M uch company they draw, and much abuse, I n casting figures, telling fortunes, news, S elling of flies, flat bawdry with the stone, T ill it, and they, and all in fume are gone.
A very vegetal: discourse of state, Of mathematics, bawdry, any thing -- MAM.
He had converted the innocent rural bawdry of the masque into a sophisticated vileness.
With a grunt, he went through to the grog-shop, whence were borne odours of sausage, ale, wine, tar and sweat on gusts of argument, laughter, bawdry and alleged song.
In the dark bar of the Holiday Inn, whisky sour before him, Enderby wrote a lyric: Give the people what they wish: Something trite and tawdry, Balladry and bawdry -- Give the people what they wish.
Idylls of the King is a fairly typical Victorian bowdlerization that accepted the prevailing attitude of the time that Le Morte darthur was little more than 'bold bawdry and open manslaughter'.
Pleasance and Hope, Desire, Foolhardiness, Beauty and Youth, and Bawdry and Richess, Charms and Sorc'ry, Leasings* and Flattery, *falsehoods Dispence, Business, and Jealousy, That wore of yellow goldes* a garland, *sunflowers And had a cuckoo sitting on her hand, Feasts, instruments, and caroles and dances, Lust and array, and all the circumstances Of Love, which I reckon'd and reckon shall In order, were painted on the wall, And more than I can make of mention.
And he laughed at the ribaldries of his fools, at unquenchable ancient bawdries that had won the laughter of other kings in the sea-lost continents of yore.