Definitions for bawdy

bawdy bawd·y

Spelling: [baw-dee]
IPA: /ˈbɔ di/

Bawdy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in bawdy (abdwy).

Definitions for bawdy

noun

  1. coarse or indecent talk or writing; bawdry; bawdiness:

adjective

  1. indecent; lewd; obscene:

Origin of bawdy

First recorded in 1505-15; bawd + -y1

Examples for bawdy

But the book is also at times funny, bawdy, and optimistic, as is Lloyd herself.

I am sick of chattering, playing dice, going to bawdy houses, and making vain reports to the Florentine Wool-staplers.

His mirth is bawdy jests with the wenches, and, behind the door, bawdy earnest.

The bawdy jokes that followed may have helped a politician who looks like he was born in a suit.

I will sing a bawdy song, sir, because your verjuice face is melancholy, to make liquor go down glib.

Never one to mince her words, Leakes is as bawdy as they get on reality television.

So one laughed, and the other cried fie: the third said I was a bawdy captain; and there was all I could get of them.

Note the bawdy pun in the first example, by which the speaker implies that she came last night.

More than bawdy, though, The Ball adds a familiar unpretentiousness to trendy locales like Tao, Lavo, The Park, and Dream Hotel.

As he went out, however, the conjurer paid him a most bawdy compliment.

Word Value for bawdy
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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