Bawdries is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 427 anagrams from letters in bawdries (abdeirsw).
First recorded in 1350-1400, bawdry is from the Middle English word bawdery. See bawd, -ery
He was primed with the letter-accounts; he made her dot her amorous I's and cross her bawdry T's.
It is also noteworthy that, for the period, the bawdry is "cut" to the lowest limit.
Thus, Brooks lumps 1601 with Mark Twain's "bawdry," and interprets it simply as another indication of frustration.
This will prove rare sport, to see how the poet's genius will grapple with this bawdry!
He omitted a good deal of bawdry, especially in Act II, scene ii.