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}] bawdiest See {bawdy}