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]