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Wiktionary 
- bawds (Noun)
Plural of bawd.
Part of speech
🔤- bawds, noun, plural of bawd.
WordNet
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| bawd - a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | ||
| prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street | ||
| adult female, woman an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" | ||
| call girl a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone | ||
| camp follower a follower who is not a member of an ingroup | ||
| comfort woman, ianfu a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II; "she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman" | ||
| demimondaine a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society | ||
| floozie, floozy, street girl, streetwalker, hustler, slattern, hooker a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- bawd (n.)
A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman. - bawd (v. i.)
To procure women for lewd purposes.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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bawd
bawd, n. a procurer or procuress of women for lewd purposes—fem. only since about 1700.—n. Bawd′ry.—adj. Bawd′y, obscene, unchaste, filthy.—n. Bawd′y-house, a brothel. [Perh. abbrev. from Bawd′strot, a word for a pander, now obsolete, derived from O. Fr. baldestrot—bald, gay, and perh. the Teut. root found in strut.] -
bawd
bawd, n. (Shak.) a hare. [Perh. a contr. of Baudrons.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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bawd
A female procuress.
Part of speech
🔤- bawd, noun, singular of bawds.
