Crossword clues for bawdy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bawdy \Bawd"y\, a.
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Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.]
It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also.
--Chaucer. Obscene; filthy; unchaste. ``A bawdy story.''
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "soiled, dirty, filthy," from bawd + -y (2). Meaning "lewd" is from 1510s, from notion of "pertaining to or befitting a bawd;" usually of language (originally to talk bawdy).\n Bawdy Basket, the twenty-third rank of canters, who carry pins, tape, ballads and obscene books to sell. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1785]\nRelated: Bawdily; bawdiness.
Wiktionary
a. (context obsolete English) soiled, dirty. (from 14th Century)
WordNet
Usage examples of "bawdy".
As soon as Seregil discovered how Alec blushed at the bawdy ones, he made a special point of including plenty of those.
He was drinking vast quantities of wine, roaring with laughter at the bawdy jokes of the men near him, rocking towards her every so oen, trying to plant a kiss on her cheek or her shoulder.
Brant gave Lang a knowing smile as he turned away, feigning discretion as he loudly raked his zipper up, prompting a bawdy burst of laughter from the impressed Suz Anne.
None were sorry to see them go, and the feast grew more lively for their absence: tiswin flowed in renewed abundance and, as if the cloud were blown away to reveal the sun, the camp rang loud with laughter and bawdy songs.
He was still watching Alleluia when Delilah made her abrupt, unnerving switch to one of the bawdiest ballads Caleb had ever heard her sing.
Softly at first, but as the hours went by and the pain deepened and the situation worsened, I screamed out lyrics to old Home Guard marching songs, then bawdy limericks I had learned as a bargeman on the Kans River, then merely screams.
Gelnhausen told his wretched bawdy tales and decanted clownish wisdom in three different dialects, for in the course of the war Stoffel had acquired the Westphalian and Alemannic stammer on top of his native Hessian.
He made her sound like a piece of garbage, not the funny, bawdy Maria that Melis had known for years.
She wears the rough garb of a csikos, a Hungarian plainsman, while she sings some of the bawdy plains songs.
He was even crustier and bawdier than the rest of the family, delighting, she sometimes thought, at making her blush scarlet at his coarse jests.
The Country Wife, but to tell the truth I always preferred the bawdier version!
Julius Caesar wedding, it was more dignified by far than it was bawdy, though the weddings Sulla had attended were bawdier by far than they were dignified, so he endured the business rather than enjoyed it.
American creation, the Beat Generation--and the beatniks had hardly faded from view when a successive subculture, the hippies, appeared on the scene and established their unofficial headquarters in the big bawdy city at the Gate.
Turkish marines wreaked gory havoc with boarding pikes and cursive swords on his left and, beyond them, Sir Calum and the Baron Melchoro stood back to back, plying Irish shortswords and spiked bucklers to fearsome effect, while shouting gruesome jokes to one another and roaring out snatches of bawdy songs.
It was not a large village, but its one main street was packed with theaters and gaming houses, hotels and eating establishments and taverns, bawdy houses and fighting rings, none of which ever closed.