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bawdy adjective [ ˈbɔːdi ]

• dealing with sexual matters in a comical way; humorously indecent.
Similar: ribald, indecent, risqué, racy, rude, spicy, suggestive, titillating, naughty, improper, indelicate, indecorous, off colour, earthy, broad, locker-room, Rabelaisian, pornographic, obscene, vulgar, crude, coarse, gross, lewd, dirty, filthy, smutty, unseemly, salacious, prurient, lascivious, licentious, X-rated, scatological, near the bone, near the knuckle, erotic, sexy, sexual, blue, raunchy, nudge-nudge, adult,
Opposite: clean, innocent,

bawdy noun

• humorously indecent talk or writing.
Origin: early 16th century: from bawd + -y1.


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