"bawdy" in the noun sense
1. bawdry, bawdy
lewd or obscene talk or writing
"it was smoking-room bawdry"
"they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
"bawdy" in the adjective sense
1. bawdy, off-color, ribald
humorously vulgar
"bawdy songs"
"off-color jokes"
"ribald language"
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