bawdry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun lewd or obscene talk or writing
    bawdy.
    • it was smoking-room bawdry
    • they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy

WordNet

Bawd"ry noun
Etymology
OE. baudery, OF. bauderie, balderie, boldness, joy. See Bawd.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913