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English Dictionary: bawdy by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bawdy
adj
  1. humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"
    Synonym(s): bawdy, off-color, ribald
n
  1. lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
    Synonym(s): bawdry, bawdy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bawdy \Bawd"y\, a.
      1. Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.]
  
                     It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
      2. Obscene; filthy; unchaste. [bd]A bawdy story.[b8] --Burke.
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