Bawd

Definition: Bawd

Bawd

Noun

1. A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bawd" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bawd

Libertine

Pimp, procurer; pander, pandar; bawd, conciliatrix, procuress, mackerel, wittol.

Crosswords: Bawd

Welsh (thumb, toe).

A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-servicable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition (King Lear; writing credit: William Shakespeare)

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Books

• Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd (Vintage International) (reference)

• London Bawd With Her Character and Life (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Benny Hill - The Lost Years (Bennies From Heaven/Benny and the Jets/The Good, The Bawd and the Benny) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

prostitutë (call girl, drab, harlot, hooker, light-o'-love, Moll, Molly, night hawk, night walker, prostitute, streetwalker, tramp, trollop, trull), pronare e shtëpisë publike. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مومس (baggage, bitch, cocotte, courtesan, courtezan, drab, harlot, moll, prostitute, punk, scrubber, slattern, strumpet, tart, trollop, whore), ‏صاحبة ماخور (madam). (various references)

Bulgarian 

своднича (bawdry, pander, pimp, procure), сводница (procuress). (various references)

Czech

kuplíř (pander, pimp, procurer). (various references)

Farsi 

جاکش (Pimp), دلال محبت (Gobetween, Pimp). (various references)

Finnish

parittaja (procurer, procuress). (various references)

French

prostituée, entremetteuse, catin. (various references)

German

Kupplerin (matchmaker, panderer, procuress). (various references)

Greek 

μαστροπόσ (pander, panderer, pimp, procurer, procuress, producer, whoremaster, whoremonger). (various references)

Hebrew 

סרסורית לז� ות. (various references)

Hungarian

kerítőnő (procurer). (various references)

Italian

tenutaria di postribolo, ruffiana, prostituta (courtesan, floozy, harlot, prostitute, quean, streetwalker, strumpet, wench, whore). (various references)

Manx

shenn streebagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

awdbay.(various references)

Portuguese

conversa obscena, cafetina (madam), alcoviteira (pimp, procurer, procuress). (various references)

Romanian

vorbe obscene (smut). (various references)

Russian 

сводня (procuress), сводничать (bawdry, pander, pimp). (various references)

Scottish

gaorsach (a bawd). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prostituisati se (hustle, prostitute), kurva (chippy, hooker, pickup, strumpet, whore), gazdarica javne kuće. (various references)

Spanish

alcahueta. (various references)

Swedish

oanständighet (foulness, immodesty, impropriety, indecency, lewdness, naughtiness, obscenity, scurrility, smut). (various references)

Turkish

pezevenk (fancy man, go between, pander, pimp, ponce, procurer, souteneur), genelev patroniçesi. (various references)

Ukrainian

власниця дому розпусти, звідникувати (pander), повія (baggage, call girl, cat, chippy, harlot, jilt, quean, streetwalker, strumpet, trollop, unfortunate, wagtail, whore, witch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trùm nh� thổ chuyện tục tĩu dâm ô. (various references)

baud. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bawd": bawdier, bawdies, bawdiest, bawdily, bawdiness, bawdinesses, bawdric, bawdrics, bawdries, bawdry, bawds, bawdy, bawdyhouse, bawdyhouses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bawd" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aaswdu, awd, baaad, baad, badd, baid, baow, basw, bauw, bauwd, baw, Bawa, Bawb, bawe, bawg, bawld, Bawu, bbw, bmw, bowd, brawd, bw, bwa, Bwaa, bwat, bwt, Bywyd, dawd, gawd, jawd, Nawdc, rawd, tawd. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bad, dab, daw, wab, wad.

-2 letters: ab, ad, aw, ba.

+1 letter: bawds, bawdy.

+2 letters: bawdry, bawled, blawed.

+3 letters: bawdier, bawdies, bawdily, bawdric, baywood, bedward, bedwarf, bewared, bowhead, bradawl, brawled, dowable, drawbar, swabbed, wabbled, wadable, wambled, warbled, windbag.

+4 letters: backward, backwood, basswood, bawdiest, bawdrics, bawdries, baywoods, beadwork, bearwood, becoward, bedstraw, bedwards, bedwarfs, bendways, beshadow, bewailed, bewrayed, blowhard, bowheads, bradawls, browband, downbeat, dowsabel, drawable, drawback, drawbars, drawbore, drawtube, jawboned, rawboned, shadblow, skewbald, sowbread, subwayed, wadeable, wardrobe, waterbed, waveband, weldable, wideband, windable, windbags.