'Bawdry' definitions:

Definition of 'bawdry'

(from WordNet)
noun
Lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy" [syn: bawdry, bawdy]

Definition of 'Bawdry'

From: GCIDE
  • Bawdry \Bawd"ry\, n. [OE. baudery, OF. bauderie, balderie, boldness, joy. See Bawd.]
  • 1. The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Illicit intercourse; fornication. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. "The pert style of the pit bawdry." --Steele. [1913 Webster]