Thursday, January 14, 2010

Bawdry:

Obscenity; unchaste language.

"I have no salt; no bawdry he doth mean; For witty, in his language, is obscene."

-B. Johnson

Bawd:
A procurer, or procuress; one that introduces men and women to each other, for the promotion of debauchey.

to bawd:
To procure; to provide gallants with strumpets.

"And in four months a batter'd harridan;
Now nothing's left, but wither'd, pale, and shrunk,
To bawd for others, and go shares with punk."

-Swift