Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bawdy \Bawd"y\, a.
   1. Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.]

            It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also.
                                                  --Chaucer.

   2. Obscene; filthy; unchaste. ``A bawdy story.'' --Burke.

Source : WordNet®

bawdy
     adj : humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald
           language" [syn: {off-color}, {ribald}]
     [also: {bawdiest}, {bawdier}]

bawdy
     n : lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room
         bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan
         bawdy" [syn: {bawdry}]
     [also: {bawdiest}, {bawdier}]