Talk:bawdy

ribald

ribald in a frank, humorous, and often crude way 
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--Backinstadiums (talk) 17:17, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

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bawdy

• (obsolete) Soiled, dirty. [from 14th Century]
  • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII:

    whanne he had ouertaken the damoysel / anone she sayd what dost thow here / thou stynkest al of the kechyn / thy clothes ben bawdy of the greece and talowe that thou gaynest in kyng Arthurs kechyn

    (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Removed / moved to Middle English by Astova. J3133 (talk) 21:06, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Also spelt baudy. May scrape in from EEBO. This, that and the other (talk) 07:56, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

RFV-resolved Kiwima (talk) 21:46, 9 April 2022 (UTC)