Definitions for bawd

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Spelling: [bawd]
IPA: /bɔd/

Bawd is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in bawd (abdw).

Definitions for bawd

noun

  1. a woman who maintains a brothel; madam.
  2. a prostitute.
  3. Archaic. a procuress.

Origin of bawd

1325-75; Middle English bawde, noun use of Middle French baude, feminine of baud jolly, dissolute West Germanic; compare Old English bald bold

Examples for bawd

Then I will say it: for the duchess; for the arch-liar and bawd!

He cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a bawd.

Also, he spreads easy-money all along the sporting pike from baseball to the bawd.

In the former case the bawd was the principal, in the latter the women.

His soul is the bawd to his body, and those that assist him in this nature the nearest to it.

A bawd of eleven years continuance, may it please your honour.

What, have I been bawd to his designs, his property only, a baiting place?

In that work the capture of a virgin named Tarsia by a bawd is described.

Wells, though acquitted of the felony, was punished as a bawd.

The heroine is Celestina, a bawd who helped them out of their troubles.

Word Value for bawd
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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