Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bawdry \Bawd"ry\, n. [OE. baudery, OF. bauderie, balderie,
   boldness, joy. See {Bawd}.]
   1. The practice of procuring women for the gratification of
      lust.

   2. Illicit intercourse; fornication. --Shak.

   3. Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. ``The pert style of
      the pit bawdry.'' --Steele.

Source : WordNet®

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