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bawdy

/ˈbɔːdi/US/ˈbɔ.di/

bawdy adjective: obscene; filthy; unchaste.

Adjective

bawdy (comparative bawdier or more bawdy, superlative bawdiest or most bawdy)

  1. Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
  2. Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.

Noun

bawdy (plural bawdies)

  1. A bawdy or lewd person.
    • The Bawdies were girls who danced naked on a ramp in the middle of a room full of tables with tops the size of pie plates.1983, Richard Hoyt, The Siskiyou Two-step, page 78
    • Our scholarly studies and discoveries about bodies and bawdies and the forbidden mysteries of S-E-X proved that participatory education had to be the very best.2001, Bill Rinaldi, You Can If You Think You Can: The Power of Thinking Big, page 37

bawdy meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

bawdy in Urdu

بدچلن, بدکار, فاجر, فاجرہ, غیرپاکیزہ, ناخالص

bawdy in Malayalam

risque, ribald, indecent
തെറിയായ, അസഭ്യഭാഷണമായ, ആഭാസമായ, അശ്ലീലമായ, അമാന്യമായ, മാന്യമല്ലാത്ത

Examples of bawdy in a sentence

  • Her humor was as bawdy as ever, and evenly placed throughout.
  • They were cheerful enough, liked a bit of chiacking, and the women enjoyed the bawdy undertones of their jokes.
  • There was no shortage of ockers who could sing bawdy songs and abuse Poms and chunder on cue.

All 13 example sentences with bawdy

Forms of bawdy

Adjective
comparativebawdier
comparativemore bawdy
superlativebawdiest
superlativemost bawdy
Noun
pluralbawdies

Origin of bawdy

From bawd + -y.

Words formed from bawdy

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Words that rhyme with bawdy

Questions about bawdy

What does bawdy mean?
Bawdy means obscene; filthy; unchaste.
What is bawdy in Urdu?
Bawdy in Urdu is بدچلن, بدکار, فاجر. See Bawdy meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is bawdy?
Bawdy can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce bawdy?
Bawdy is pronounced /ˈbɔːdi/ (UK).

Words near bawdy in the dictionary

  1. bawdrons
  2. bawdry
  3. bawds
  4. bawdship
  5. bawdships
  6. bawdy
  7. bawdy basket
  8. bawdy baskets
  9. bawdy house
  10. bawdy houses
  11. bawdy-house

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bawdy (page history and authors); bawdy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bawdy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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