- 1黃色的、下流的（好玩、吵鬧、不怕羞）
If a song, joke, or story is bawdy, it talks about sex and bodies in a way meant to be funny, warm, and often noisy. People have used this kind of humour for a very long time, in old plays, in pubs, in holiday shows. It is not a child’s word, but it is also not a cold hospital word. It feels a bit old-fashioned now; many younger speakers would say dirty, naughty, or raunchy instead. You still see bawdy in writing when someone wants that older, theatrical colour — a bawdy ballad, a bawdy comedy. Though actually it is not the same as mean or : the usual hope is that everyone in the room is in on the joke, even if a few people blush.
組成From bawd + -y. In older English a bawd was a person who ran a house that sold sex; the adjective took that rough world and used it for jokes and songs that talk about sex in a loud, laughing way. Dictionaries then trace bawd further back through French and Frankish toward an old Germanic word, but that deep history is easy to over-tell. For learners, the living pieces are bawd and -y.
同家族的字
- bawdthe older noun the adjective is built from
- bawdinessthe noun for this quality
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bawdyadj/ˈbɔːdi/
- 1
Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
- 2
Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.
bawdynoun/ˈbɔːdi/
- 1
A bawdy or lewd person.
- The Bawdies were girls who danced naked on a ramp in the middle of a room full of tables with tops the size of pie plates.
- Our scholarly studies and discoveries about bodies and bawdies and the forbidden mysteries of S-E-X proved that participatory education had to be the very best.
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