[ noun ] lewd or obscene talk or writing <noun.communication> it was smoking-room bawdrythey published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy
Bawdry \Bawd"ry\, n. [OE. baudery, OF. bauderie, balderie, boldness, joy. See {Bawd}.] 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.