Bawdry

Quick meaning: Bawdry is a noun meaning The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

Meaning

The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

More Meanings

1. Illicit intercourse; fornication.
2. Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language.

Example Sentences

[T]he Converſation (if it may be called ſo) was ſeldom ſuch as could entertain a Lady. It conſiſted chiefly of Hollowing, Singing, Relations of ſporting Adventures, B—d—y, and Abuſe of Women and of the Government.

Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded.

Word Forms

• bawdries
• baw'ry

Synonyms for bawdry

Depending on context, synonyms include bawdy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bawdy, bawdiness, whoremongering, lustmaking, rakery, whoring.

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