lewd or obscene talk or writing - it was smoking-room bawdry - they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy • Syn: bawdry • Hypernyms: obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty word
II - adjective
humorously vulgar (Freq. 1) - bawdy songs - off-color jokes - ribald language • Syn: off-color, ribald • Similar to: dirty • Derivationally related forms: ribald (for: ribald), bawd, bawdiness