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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
bawdry
 
SYLLABICATION:bawd·ry
PRONUNCIATION:  bôdr
NOUN: Risqué, coarse, or obscene language.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English bawdery, pandering, from bawd, bawd. See bawd.
 
 
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