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Definition of Bawdry

Bawdry
Bawdry Bawd"ry, n. [OE. baudery, OF. bauderie, balderie, boldness, joy. See Bawd.] 1. The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust. 2. Illicit intercourse; fornication. --Shak. 3. Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. ``The pert style of the pit bawdry.' --Steele.

Meaning of Bawdry from wikipedia

- Ribaldry or blue comedy is humorous entertainment that ranges from bordering on indelicacy to indecency. Blue comedy is also referred to as "bawdiness"...
- verses ****s, He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; I have no salt, no bawdry he doth mean ; For witty, in his language, is obscene. Playwright, I loath...
- breadth and variety of his repertory, some 140 items ranging from rough bawdry to high balladry, but above all for his technique, based, according to the...
- family entertainment. The style of adult entertainment may be ribaldry or bawdry. Any entertainment that normally includes ****ual content qualifies as adult...
- like the monarchs before him. One of his goals was to decrease the ‘open bawdry’ that was widespread throughout the city. He did so by requesting that the...
- learned about the poets of Ancient Alexandria, and with a line in extravagant bawdry'. Robert Allason Furness was born in 1883, the son of the Reverend John...
- Michael Bennett 23 October 2007 (2007-10-23) N/A 46 16 "A Jig or a Tale of Bawdry" Murray Keane Tim Balme 30 October 2007 (2007-10-30) N/A 47 17 "The Secret...
- chattering which ends in tippling orthodoxy, and for that spiritualized bawdry which refines to liquorish devotion. In a sessional process with a gentleman...
- a satirical figure of street commentary, ****ual theatre and political bawdry. Elizabeth Cresswell was born in about 1625, probably in the small village...
- Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley, London: Askin Publishers. 1978. The Best Bawdry, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1982. The World's Best Dirty Songs, Angus &...