Word.ws English Dictionary

bawdy house

bawdy house is the alternative spelling of bawdy-house.

Meaning of bawdy-house

Noun

bawdy-house (plural bawdy-houses)

  1. (formal, historical) A brothel; a house of prostitution.
    • Yet Sewell can publicly embrace a homosexual like George Hislop who helps to run a bawdy house for men and is a candidate for alderman in Ward 6.1980, Stew Newton, "Think About I!!", pamphlet reproduced in 1981, Feb 14, Alexander Wilson, "The New Right Attacks Childhood Sexuality: A Canadian Perspective", in Gay Community News, volume 8...

Forms of bawdy house

pluralbawdy houses

Questions about bawdy house

What is bawdy house the alternative spelling of?
Bawdy house is the alternative spelling of bawdy-house.

Words near bawdy house in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bawdy house (page history and authors); bawdy-house (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bawdy house.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bawdy_house. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.