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bawdry

 
Dictionary: bawd·ry   (bô'drē) pronunciation
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n.
Risqué, coarse, or obscene language.

[Middle English bawdery, pandering, from bawd, bawd. See bawd.]


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noun

    Something that is offensive to accepted standards of decency: dirt, filth, obscenity, profanity, ribaldry, scatology, smut, vulgarity. Slang raunch. See decent/indecent.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: lewd or obscene talk or writing
  Synonym: bawdy

 
 
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