bawd
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- noun
- /bɔd/
- Offensive
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ramera
- The tale featured a cunning bawd who skillfully navigated the dangers of her trade to survive.
- an old bawd
Examples
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Rochester could have referred to the famous bawd in his title alone, thus avoiding having to integrate her name into the fabric of the poem itself.
Academic text (2016) -
"We must find that old bawd and the child before they flee the city."
Fiction book (1990) -
Giving as good as she got, she let out a brief laugh, and then, as cool and collected as an old bawd, tossed back a playful wink at me.
Fiction book (1994) -
There, the bawd boasts to Sempronio of her celebrity, her long years of professional prowess; she brags of her enduring monopoly on promiscuity among the citizenry.
Academic text (1995) -
The old bawd knew every secret of the city and had many stories to tell about her life.
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In literature, the character of the bawd often reflects societal views on morality and vice.
Synonyms
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9.3
An offensive word for a person who has sex for money
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4.2
A person who has sex with other people for money
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9.9
A woman who sells sex for money
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9.9
A woman who sells sex, often used as an insult
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8.6
A woman who sells sex for money
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9.9
A woman who has sex for money, used in older books
A woman who has sex with people for money
A woman who works as a prostitute
A woman who has sex for money and often lives in high society
A woman who has sex for money or who lives on the streets
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bawd is an old word for a woman who sold sex or worked as a prostitute. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the word bawdy ('sexually rude') — a bawd is tied to that same sexual meaning, which is why the word came to mean a woman who had paid sex.