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Definition of Bawdy
1. Noun. Lewd or obscene talk or writing. "They published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
2. Adjective. Humorously vulgar. "Ribald language"
Definition of Bawdy
1. a. Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.
Definition of Bawdy
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Soiled, dirty. (defdate from 14th Century) ¹
2. Adjective. Obscene; filthy; unchaste. (defdate from 15th Century) ¹
3. Adjective. (context: of language) Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bawdy
1. obscene [adj BAWDIER, BAWDIEST] / obscene language [n BAWDIES] - See also: obscene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bawdy
Literary usage of Bawdy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"DISORDERLY, TIPPLING, AND bawdy-HOUSES. 1. Definitions and Characteristics.
§ 2392. Independently of special statutes, a disorderly house, when kept in such ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"bawdy Houses.—A common bawdy house, or house to which persons may and do resort
... That a common bawdy house is a disorderly house and a public nuisance, ..."
3. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1858)
"bawdy-HOUSES, sometimes called houses of ill fame, are common law ... 2 A
bawdy-house has been denned to be, "a house of ill fame kept for the resort and ..."
4. The Digest of Canadian Criminal Case Law: Comprising the Reported Cases on by George Edward McCrossan, Samuel Davies Schultz, Andrew Miller Harper (1908)
"Code has not changed the law ¡is to what constitutes the offence of keeping a
common bawdy house, and that a woman living by herself in a house cannot be ..."
5. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1883)
"The following houses are disorderly houses, that is to say, common bawdy houses,
... COMMON bawdy HOUSES. 8 A common bawdy house is a house or room, ..."
6. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"... to indulge them in this particular, and to gratify their carnal appetites by
allowing public and private bawdy- ..."
7. The Law of Libel and Slander in Civil and Criminal Cases: As Administered in by Martin L. Newell (1898)
"Keeping a bawdy-house.— "Whatever may have been the earlier decisions it is now
well settled in England that it is actionable, without proof of special ..."
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