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Definition of 'bawd'English
Alternative forms
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Noun
( en-noun)
A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame.
*1717 , Ned Ward, :
*:As Whores decay'd and past their Labours, / Turn Bawds , and so assist their Neighbours.
*2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 76:
*:Compared with their opponents, bawds and their associates increasingly had deeper pockets and greater confidence in manipulating the law.
A lewd person.
Adjective
( en-adj)
(obsolete) Joyous; riotously gay.
Verb
( en-verb)
(archaic) To procure women for lewd purposes.
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Similar to 'bawd'bad, bed, bid, bead, baud, bud, bod, bowed, booed, bayed, baed, baaed, boid, buyed, behad, boud, bewed
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