Bawd·y, a.
  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.”
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  bawdy
       adj : humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald
             language" [syn: off-color, ribald]
       n : lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room
           bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan
           bawdy" [syn: bawdry]
       [also: bawdiest, bawdier]