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▪ I. † ˈbawdy, a. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 baudy, 5–6 bawdy, 6 baudye, 7 bawdy.
[Derivation unknown. Skeat compares W. bawaidd dirty, f. baw mud. The F. boue ‘mud’ is probably of same origin.]
Soiled, dirty, filthy.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 197 A tauny tabarde..Al totorne and baudy, and ful of lys crepynge. c1430Lydg. Bochas ix. xxxiv. (1554) 214 b, He..in the kechen laye Among the pottes with baudy coate. 1527Whittinton Vulg. 28 b, Holde thy bawdy handes fro my boke..My handes be as clene as thyne. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. iii. (1651) 323 Slovenly cooks, that..never wash their bawdy hands.
b. fig. of language: Vile, abominable, barbarous.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 90 b, Them that wyll nat come out of theyr baudy latyn [qui barbariem nunquam exuunt].
▪ II. bawdy, a.2|ˈbɔːdɪ|
Forms: 6 bawdye, bawdie, 6–7 baudie, baudy, 6– bawdy.)
[f. bawd n. + -y. Probably often associated in sense with prec.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or befitting a bawd; lewd, obscene, unchaste. (Usually applied to language.)
1513Bradshaw St. Werburge (1848) 209 Baudy balades full of..wanton wylde gestis. 1616R. C. Times' Whis. v. 2137 The chamber wher you lay your head With baudie pictures round about doe spread. c1765Burke On Drama Wks. X. 158 Listening to a bawdy story from his host.
2. absol. quasi-n., esp. in phr. to talk bawdy (where perh. orig. adverbial): Lewd, obscene language, lewdness, obscenity.
1656Sanderson Serm. (1689) 16 To drink, talk bawdy, swear and stare. 1698Vanbrugh æsop Prol., No rape, no bawdy, no intrigue, no beau. 1702De Foe More Reform. 787 Eternal Bawdy fills up every Song. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy 220 How can that unconscionable coachman talk so much bawdy to that lean horse.
3. Comb. bawdy-basket, a hawker of indecent literature; bawdy-house, a brothel.
1552Huloet, Bawdye house or house of bawdrye..summœnium. 1567Harman Caveat 65 These Bawdy baskets be..wemen, and go with baskets..where in they have laces, pynnes, nedles. 1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Bawdy Basket, the twenty-third rank of canters, who carry pins, tape, ballads and obscene books to sell. 1882Ev. Man's Own Lawyer 390 The keeping a bawdy house is a common nuisance.
▪ III. † ˈbawdy, v. Obs.
Also 6 baudy.
[f. bawdy a.1]
To make dirty or filthy, to befoul, defile.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxxvii. (1495) 836 The swyne..walowyth in dyrte..and bawdyeth hymself therwyth. 1530Palsgr. 444/2 He hath baudyed his sleves on this facyon. |