bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 18, 2014, at 7:33 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> 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

Just an innocent little ditty about a handsome young tinker who the missus brings up to her feather bed with her to work out the kinks in her...frying pans (for a nominal fee).

LH
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> 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
>>> 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."
>>>>
>>>> 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."
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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