bawdy = 'rowdily humorous; slapstick'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Right. But that's the less bawdy version....

JL


On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Jan 18, 2014, at 7:33 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > 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
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
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> >> On Jan 18, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> LH
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com
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> >>>>>
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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
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:47:08 -0400
> >>>>>> From: wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
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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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