bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'

[Jonathan Lighter]

1947 David H. Grene in _PMLA_  LXII 826: Mary Byrne [in Synge's "The Jolly
Tinker"] sings her bawdy song, "The Night before Larry was Stretched."

Grene was a leading scholar of Irish literature.

The well-known "Night before Larry was Stretched" is rowdy, humorous,
slapstick, irreverent, even grotesque.

But not "bawdy."

JL


On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> The idiotic Australian DJs' call to the hospital containing the Duchess of
> Cambridge is described by CNN as "a bawdy prank."
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> JL
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> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com
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> > To be "bawdy" you need to be a little bit "naughty" or risque.
> > As an awe-dropper would say it, "To be body you need to be a little bit
> > knotty."
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> > Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
> > see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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> > > Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:47:08 -0400
> > > From: wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
> > > Subject: bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'
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> > > Today at http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=133129&messages=7
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> > > "I heard John Roberts & Tony Barrand sing a bawdy song about a rather
> > > spirited dinner party."
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> > > None of the lyrics of the song are in the least bit "bawdy." I've
> > > encountered this usage before at this site.
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> > > JL
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