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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bawdry \Bawd"ry\, n. [OE. baudery, OF bauderie balderie boldness, joy. See {Bawd}.] 1. The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust. 2. Illicit intercourse; fornication. --Shak. 3. Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. ``The pert style of the pit bawdry.'' --Steele. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bawdry n : lewd or obscene talk or writing; " it was smoking-room bawdry" or "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy" [syn: {bawdy}]
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