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English
Etymology
From bawd + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
bawdy (comparative bawdier or more bawdy, superlative bawdiest or most bawdy)
- Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
- (of language) Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.
Derived terms
Translations
obscene
- Bulgarian: неприличен (bg) (nepriličen), нецензурен (bg) (necenzuren)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 猥褻的／猥亵的 (wěixiè de), 下流的 (xiàliú de), 淫穢的／淫秽的 (yínhuì de)
- Dutch: obsceen (nl), onkuis (nl)
- Finnish: rivo (fi)
- French: grivois (fr), paillard (fr)
- German: unanständig (de)
- Greek: αισχρός (el) m (aischrós), άσεμνος (el) m (ásemnos)
- Maori: mōtekoteko, takao
- Polish: sprośny (pl), obleśny (pl)
- Romanian: obscen (ro) m
- Serbo-Croatian: nepristojan (sh) m, prost (sh) m
- Spanish: guarro (es), sucio (es), lascivo (es)
- Swedish: oanständig (sv)
- Ukrainian: непристойний m (neprystojnyj), розпусний m (rozpusnyj)
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References
Middle English
Adjective
bawdy
- soiled, dirty
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)