bawdy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun lewd or obscene talk or writing
    bawdry.
    • it was smoking-room bawdry
    • they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy
  2. adjective satellite humorously vulgar
    off-color; ribald.
    • bawdy songs
    • off-color jokes
    • ribald language

WordNet

Bawd"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. Obs.
    It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also. Chaucer.
  2. Obscene; filthy; unchaste. "A bawdy story." Burke.

Webster 1913