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Definition of Bawdry
1. Noun. Lewd or obscene talk or writing. "They published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
Generic synonyms: Dirty Word, Filth, Obscenity, Smut, Vulgarism
Derivative terms: Bawdy
Definition of Bawdry
1. n. The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
Definition of Bawdry
1. Noun. The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust. ¹
2. Noun. Illicit intercourse; fornication. ¹
3. Noun. Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bawdry
1. obscenity [n -RIES] - See also: obscenity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bawdry
Literary usage of Bawdry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a by John Brand, William Carew Hazlitt (1905)
"bawdry..—Wallis, in his essays on the Privileges of the University of Oxford,"
printed in "Collectanea Curiosa," notices that by a charter of 37 Hen. ..."
2. New Commentaries on the Criminal Law Upon a New System of Legal Exposition by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1892)
"Selling House for bawdry. — The Kentucky Court seemed to regard the selling of a
... who lets a house for bawdry and collects the rents, incurs the same ..."
3. Yale Studies in English edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Yale university New Haven (1903)
"Gifford, in deleting the comma after bawdry, spoiled the sense for ... Besides,
to bear Cunningham's interpretation, bawdry would have to mean cheating. ..."
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