adj
Meaning 1
Joyous; riotously gay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bawd
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /bɔːd/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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US: bôd
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US: /bɔd/
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cot-caught-merger: /bɑd/
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rhymes with -ɔːd
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homophone: baud
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homophone: board
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homophone: bored (non-rhotic)
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CMU ARPABET: B AO1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One who keeps a brothel, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer or madam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, historical
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A person who facilitates an immoral act, especially one of a sexual nature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A lewd person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 5
To procure women for lewd purposes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: woman, adult female
Narrower terms: call girl, camp follower, comfort woman, ianfu, demimondaine, streetwalker, street girl, hooker, hustler, floozy, floozie, slattern, white slave
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhel- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *bhóltosder. Proto-Germanic *balþaz Frankish *balþbor. Old French baudbor. Middle English bawde English bawd From Middle English bawde, baude, from Old French baud (“bold, lively, jolly, gay”). Doublet of bold. An association with Welsh bawddyn (“dirty fellow, scoundrel”), from baw (“dirt”), was suggested by the Rev. Henry Todd.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: кико́тещ се (kikótešt se) — joyous; riotously gay.
- Bulgarian: ки́скащ се (kískašt se) — joyous; riotously gay.
- Bulgarian: сутеньо́р (sutenjór) — one who keeps a brothel or procures women for prostitution — see also pimp, procurer, madam
- Bulgarian: сво́дник (svódnik) — one who keeps a brothel or procures women for prostitution — see also pimp, procurer, madam
- Bulgarian: развра́тник (razvrátnik) — a lewd person
- Bulgarian: развра́тница (razvrátnica) — a lewd person
- Bulgarian: сутеньо́рствам (sutenjórstvam) — to procure women for lewd purposes
- Bulgarian: сво́днича (svódniča) — to procure women for lewd purposes