bawdy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 5
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Definition of bawdy
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
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adj
- Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
- Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.
noun
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A bawdy or lewd person.
“The Bawdies were girls who danced naked on a ramp in the middle of a room full of tables with tops the size of pie plates.”
“Our scholarly studies and discoveries about bodies and bawdies and the forbidden mysteries of S-E-X proved that participatory education had to be the very best.”
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *bʰóltosder. Proto-Germanic *balþaz Frankish *balþbor. Old French baudbor. Middle English bawde English bawd Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bawdy From bawd + -y.
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