bawdy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɔːdi/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɔdi/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈbɑdi/
- Rhymes: -ɔːdi
- Homophone: body (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Adjective[edit]
bawdy (comparative bawdier or more bawdy, superlative bawdiest or most bawdy)
- Obscene; filthy; unchaste. [from 15th Century]
- (of language) Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
obscene
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References[edit]
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bawdy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Middle English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
bawdy
- soiled, dirty [from 14th Century]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII:
- whanne he had ouertaken the damoysel / anone she sayd what dost thow here / thou stynkest al of the kechyn / thy clothes ben bawdy of the greece and talowe that thou gaynest in kyng Arthurs kechyn
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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