bawd
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English bawde, baude, from Old French baud (“bold, lively, jolly, gay”). Doublet of bold.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔːd
Noun
bawd (plural bawds)
- (now archaic or historical) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame.
- 1717, Ned Ward, British Wonders:
- As Whores decay'd and past their Labours, / Turn Bawds, and so assist their Neighbours.
- 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, p. 76:
- Compared with their opponents, bawds and their associates increasingly had deeper pockets and greater confidence in manipulating the law.
- 1717, Ned Ward, British Wonders:
- A lewd person.
Derived terms
Adjective
bawd (comparative more bawd, superlative most bawd)
Verb
bawd (third-person singular simple present bawds, present participle bawding, simple past and past participle bawded)
Anagrams
Welsh
Etymology
From Middle Welsh mawd < Proto-Celtic *mā-to- < Proto-Indo-European *mē-. Compare Breton meud and Cornish meusva.
Noun
bawd m (plural bodiau)
- thumb
- big toe
- (of a crab or lobster) claw
- hoof
- (in slate quarrying) a flaw or crack in the slate
- a bar projecting from rock face to which ropes are attached
- (of a railway or tramway) points, turnouts
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