bawdy(n = noun.communication) bawdry - lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
is a kind of dirty word, filth, obscenity, smut, vulgarism
Derived form adjective bawdy₁

   bawdy(s = adj.all) off-color, ribald - humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"
Derived forms noun bawd₁, noun bawdiness₁, noun bawdy₁

1.  Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [1913 Webster]
"It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also." [1913 Webster]

2.  Obscene; filthy; unchaste. Burke. [1913 Webster]

bawdy, adj. & n.
--adj. (bawdier, bawdiest) humorously indecent.
--n. bawdy talk or writing.

Idiom:
bawdy-house a brothel.

Derivative:
bawdily adv. bawdiness n.

Etymology:
BAWD + -Y(1)

N  impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.