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bawd

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4 lettersPronunciation /bɔːd/Part of speech nounSorted abdwStarts with BEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

Word origin

From Middle English bawde, baude, from Old French baud (“bold, lively, jolly, gay”). Doublet of bold. An association with Welsh bawddyn (“dirty fellow, scoundrel”), from baw (“dirt”), was suggested by the Rev. Henry Todd.

Used in a sentence

  • Of late in the Park, a fair fancy was seen / Betwixt an old Baud and a lusty young Quean, / Their parting of Money began the uproar, / I'll have half says the Baud, but you shan't says the Whore
  • As Whores decay'd and past their Labours, / Turn Bawds, and so assist their Neighbours.
  • Compared with their opponents, bawds and their associates increasingly had deeper pockets and greater confidence in manipulating the law.

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