adj
Meaning 1
Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bawdy
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: /ˈbɔːdi/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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US: /ˈbɔ.di/
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cot-caught-merger: /ˈbɑ.di/
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homophone: body (cot–caught merger)
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rhymes with -ɔːdi
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CMU ARPABET: B AO1 D IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A bawdy or lewd person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
humorously vulgar
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- bawdy songs
- off-color jokes
- ribald language
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: off-color, ribald
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
lewd or obscene talk or writing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- it was smoking-room bawdry
- they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bawdry
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty word
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 Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English bawdy From bawd + -y.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: неприличен (nepriličen) — obscene
- Bulgarian: нецензурен (necenzuren) — obscene
- Chinese Mandarin: 猥褻的 /猥亵的 (wěixiè de) — obscene
- Chinese Mandarin: 下流的 (xiàliú de) — obscene
- Chinese Mandarin: 淫穢的 /淫秽的 (yínhuì de) — obscene
- Czech: necudný — obscene
- Czech: lascivní — obscene
- Danish: uanstændig — obscene
- Danish: sjofel — obscene
- Dutch: obsceen — obscene
- Dutch: onkuis — obscene
- Finnish: rivo — obscene
- French: grivois — obscene
- French: paillard — obscene
- German: unanständig — obscene
- Greek: αισχρός (aischrós) — obscene
- Greek: άσεμνος (ásemnos) — obscene
- Māori: mōtekoteko — obscene
- Māori: takao — obscene
- Polish: sprośny — obscene
- Polish: obleśny — obscene
- Polish: obsceniczny — obscene
- Romanian: obscen — obscene
- Serbo-Croatian: nepristojan — obscene
- Serbo-Croatian: prost — obscene
- Spanish: guarro — obscene
- Spanish: sucio — obscene
- Spanish: lascivo — obscene
- Swedish: oanständig — obscene
- Ukrainian: непристойний (neprystojnyj) — obscene
- Ukrainian: розпусний (rozpusnyj) — obscene