bawdy

Other forms of bawdy

plural

bawdies·

comparative or superlative

bawdier

comparative or superlative

bawdiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bawdy

What does bawdy mean?

bawdy means "lewd or obscene talk or writing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bawdy?

bawdy has 2 syllables: baw-dy. The stress falls on "baw". In IPA it is /ˈbɔdi/.

What is another word for bawdy?

Close synonyms include bawdry, off-color, ribald. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bawdy a common word?

bawdy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.