bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Mea culpa. The name of Synge's play is of  course "The Tinker's Wedding."

"The Jolly Tinker" is the name of a bawdy song.

JL


On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Jan 18, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > 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
>
> Yep, it sure doesn't seem bawdy to me.  Nor too cheerful, even if poor
> Larry dies with his face to the city (Dublin).  But then I'm probably not
> an objective observer.
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> LH
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> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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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."
> >>
> >> JL
> >>
> >>
> >> 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."
> >>>
> >>> 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
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> >>>> Today at http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=133129&messages=7
> >>>>
> >>>> "I heard John Roberts & Tony Barrand sing a bawdy song about a rather
> >>>> spirited dinner party."
> >>>>
> >>>> None of the lyrics of the song are in the least bit "bawdy." I've
> >>>> encountered this usage before at this site.
> >>>>
> >>>> JL
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