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单词 bawdiness
释义
bawdybawd‧y /ˈbɔːdi $ ˈbɒːdi/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINbawdy
Origin:
1500-1600 bawd ‘woman who works in or runs a brothel’ (14-19 centuries), perhaps from Old French baude ‘confident and cheerful’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a bawdy new comedy
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But in London it brought belly laughs with a bawdy display of music hall humour and saucy songs.
  • It's like an Electric Ballroom gig: rowdy, bawdy, hands outstretched, fingers touching, bodies crushing.
  • Lysistrata is a very silly play with a very bawdy storyline.
  • She did not mean this as a bawdy joke.
  • The woman was lively, even bawdy, but there was something reserved, steely, behind her levity.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· This ain't no bawdy house.· So I think he went down to the stews and bawdy houses along the river.· The same thing had happened during the riots against the Strand bawdy houses in 1749.· Of course, there are no longer bawdy houses, where these unfortunates are displayed openly to debauched satyrs.
bawdy songs, jokes, stories etc are about sex and are funny, enjoyable, and often noisy:  a bawdy new playbawdiness noun [uncountable]
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