{ "bawbee":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": an English halfpenny":[], ": any of various Scottish coins of small value":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "1542, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "probably from Alexander Orrok, laird of Sille bawbe flourished 1538 Scottish master of the mint":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8b\u022f-(\u02cc)b\u0113", "b\u022f-\u02c8b\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232744", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "bawcock":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a fine fellow":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "1599, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "French beau coq , from beau fine + coq fellow, cock":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8b\u022f-\u02cck\u00e4k" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031827", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "bawd":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": one who keeps a house of prostitution : madam":[], ": pander":[], ": prostitute":[] }, "examples":[ "in the 17th century the port was a notorious hangout for Caribbean pirates and their bawds", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Lewd women, bawds and adventuresses were not welcome in courts, nor were prostitutes or immoral characters. \u2014 Clement Knox, Time , 4 Feb. 2020", "Two rival madams\u2014based on real historical characters\u2014are fighting each other for a customer base: earthy bawd Mrs. Margaret Wells and elegant, conniving Mrs. Lydia Quigley. \u2014 Viv Groskop, Newsweek , 21 Mar. 2017" ], "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English bawde":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8b\u022fd" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "call girl", "cocotte", "courtesan", "drab", "hooker", "hustler", "prostitute", "sex worker", "streetwalker", "tart", "whore" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073351", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "bawdiness":{ "antonyms":[ "clean", "decent", "G-rated", "nonobscene", "wholesome" ], "definitions":{ ": bawdry sense 2":[], ": boisterously or humorously indecent":[ "bawdy jokes" ], ": obscene , lewd":[ "a bawdy comedian" ] }, "examples":[ "Adjective", "a bawdy film that is not appropriate for children", "a bawdy comment about someone you work with could get you fired", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective", "For our family, Juneteenth isn\u2019t about bawdy celebrations that can be monetized. \u2014 Marisa Renee Lee, Vogue , 17 June 2022", "Alexia\u2019s plan to book her ideal wedding venue hits a snag; Lisa hosts a bawdy slumber party. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022", "But at what cost", "Their personalities certainly differ\u2014Musk can be brash and bawdy , while Agrawal keeps a low profile\u2014but they\u2019re bonded by a love for the technical and theoretical possibilities of their products. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 5 Apr. 2022", "Aiming to bring back tourists, Moche\u2019s mayor tapped the region\u2019s past with a bawdy idea: Put up a giant replica of an erotic ceramic from the pre-Incan Moche civilization that once flourished in the area. \u2014 Ryan Dube, WSJ , 28 Mar. 2022", "Many are bawdy , hilarious, the sort of stuff Lego would never touch. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com , 25 Mar. 2022", "Art, language, race and gender, folklore and politics are covered here, and Hurston is, by turn, provocative, funny, bawdy , informative and outrageous. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Jan. 2022", "Everett was too rock and roll for Broadway, too bawdy for concert halls, and too musical for standup comedy. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 27 Dec. 2021", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "But all the actors are adept at the musical\u2019s combination of dry, dark wit and bawdy humor. \u2014 Charles Isherwood, WSJ , 9 June 2022", "Come for the bawdy humor, and stay for the roll call of icons who make cameos throughout: RuPaul, Quentin Crisp, Robin Williams, and of course, the titular Julie Newmar. \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 4 June 2022", "Better known for her work with the likes of Robert Redford (Quiz Show) and Whit Stillman (Barcelona), Schiff's bawdy script didn't generate much enthusiasm within Sorvino's camp. \u2014 Keaton Bell, Vogue , 27 Apr. 2022", "On this date in 1887 a reporter for The San Diego Union wrote an expose on San Diego\u2019s vice that catalogued some 50 licensed saloons, 35 bawdy houses, three opium joints and a mysterious fortuneteller called Madam Coara. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Apr. 2022", "More than 3,000 visitors attended the first weekend of the bawdy gathering, indulging in two wild nights at one of Detroit\u2019s signature winter events. \u2014 Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press , 17 Feb. 2022", "Among Reitman's producing tasks on the project was trying to find a college prepared to host the bawdy film, which would eventually be shot at the University of Oregon. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 15 Feb. 2022", "White remained youthful in part through her skill at playing bawdy or naughty while radiating niceness. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 1 Jan. 2022", "Despite its bawdy -satiric tone\u2014and an outrageous scene in which Tommy has a conversation with his love appendage\u2014the show is firmly on the lovers' side. \u2014 Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com , 1 Feb. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "1656, in the meaning defined above":"Noun", "circa 1513, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "bawd + -y entry 1":"Adjective", "probably from bawdy entry 1":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8b\u022f-d\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "blue", "coarse", "crude", "dirty", "filthy", "foul", "gross", "gutter", "impure", "indecent", "lascivious", "lewd", "locker-room", "nasty", "obscene", "pornographic", "porny", "profane", "raunchy", "ribald", "smutty", "stag", "trashy", "unprintable", "vulgar", "wanton", "X-rated" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022331", "type":[ "adjective", "adverb", "noun" ] }, "bawdry":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": suggestive, coarse, or obscene language":[], ": unchastity":[] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{ "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English bawderie , from bawde":"" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8b\u022f-dr\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060030", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "bawdy":{ "antonyms":[ "clean", "decent", "G-rated", "nonobscene", "wholesome" ], "definitions":{ ": bawdry sense 2":[], ": boisterously or humorously indecent":[ "bawdy jokes" ], ": obscene , lewd":[ "a bawdy comedian" ] }, "examples":[ "Adjective", "a bawdy film that is not appropriate for children", "a bawdy comment about someone you work with could get you fired", "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective", "For our family, Juneteenth isn\u2019t about bawdy celebrations that can be monetized. \u2014 Marisa Renee Lee, Vogue , 17 June 2022", "Alexia\u2019s plan to book her ideal wedding venue hits a snag; Lisa hosts a bawdy slumber party. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022", "But at what cost", "Their personalities certainly differ\u2014Musk can be brash and bawdy , while Agrawal keeps a low profile\u2014but they\u2019re bonded by a love for the technical and theoretical possibilities of their products. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 5 Apr. 2022", "Aiming to bring back tourists, Moche\u2019s mayor tapped the region\u2019s past with a bawdy idea: Put up a giant replica of an erotic ceramic from the pre-Incan Moche civilization that once flourished in the area. \u2014 Ryan Dube, WSJ , 28 Mar. 2022", "Many are bawdy , hilarious, the sort of stuff Lego would never touch. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com , 25 Mar. 2022", "Art, language, race and gender, folklore and politics are covered here, and Hurston is, by turn, provocative, funny, bawdy , informative and outrageous. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Jan. 2022", "Everett was too rock and roll for Broadway, too bawdy for concert halls, and too musical for standup comedy. \u2014 Michael Schulman, The New Yorker , 27 Dec. 2021", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "But all the actors are adept at the musical\u2019s combination of dry, dark wit and bawdy humor. \u2014 Charles Isherwood, WSJ , 9 June 2022", "Come for the bawdy humor, and stay for the roll call of icons who make cameos throughout: RuPaul, Quentin Crisp, Robin Williams, and of course, the titular Julie Newmar. \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 4 June 2022", "Better known for her work with the likes of Robert Redford (Quiz Show) and Whit Stillman (Barcelona), Schiff's bawdy script didn't generate much enthusiasm within Sorvino's camp. \u2014 Keaton Bell, Vogue , 27 Apr. 2022", "On this date in 1887 a reporter for The San Diego Union wrote an expose on San Diego\u2019s vice that catalogued some 50 licensed saloons, 35 bawdy houses, three opium joints and a mysterious fortuneteller called Madam Coara. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Apr. 2022", "More than 3,000 visitors attended the first weekend of the bawdy gathering, indulging in two wild nights at one of Detroit\u2019s signature winter events. \u2014 Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press , 17 Feb. 2022", "Among Reitman's producing tasks on the project was trying to find a college prepared to host the bawdy film, which would eventually be shot at the University of Oregon. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 15 Feb. 2022", "White remained youthful in part through her skill at playing bawdy or naughty while radiating niceness. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 1 Jan. 2022", "Despite its bawdy -satiric tone\u2014and an outrageous scene in which Tommy has a conversation with his love appendage\u2014the show is firmly on the lovers' side. \u2014 Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com , 1 Feb. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "1656, in the meaning defined above":"Noun", "circa 1513, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "bawd + -y entry 1":"Adjective", "probably from bawdy entry 1":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8b\u022f-d\u0113" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "blue", "coarse", "crude", "dirty", "filthy", "foul", "gross", "gutter", "impure", "indecent", "lascivious", "lewd", "locker-room", "nasty", "obscene", "pornographic", "porny", "profane", "raunchy", "ribald", "smutty", "stag", "trashy", "unprintable", "vulgar", "wanton", "X-rated" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091248", "type":[ "adjective", "adverb", "noun" ] }, "bawdy house":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": brothel":[] }, "examples":[ "a frontier mining town that had few diversions other than the local bawdy house", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The city has sued a handful of property owners seeking to label their properties as public nuisances under the state's bawdy house statute. \u2014 Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 31 Oct. 2019", "There was probably at least one bawdy house , but it isn\u2019t mentioned. \u2014 Arthur Hart, idahostatesman , 7 Apr. 2018" ], "first_known_use":{ "1552, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "bagnio", "bordello", "brothel", "cathouse", "disorderly house", "sporting house", "stew", "whorehouse" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-052737", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "bawl":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a loud prolonged cry : outcry":[ "\u2026 political bawls and bellows about cattle prices \u2026", "\u2014 Time" ], ": to cry loudly : wail":[ "He lay on his bed, bawling uncontrollably." ], ": to cry out at the top of one's voice":[ "\"Get out of the car!\" she bawled ." ], ": to cry out loudly and unrestrainedly":[ "a sergeant bawling at his troops" ] }, "examples":[ "Verb", "\u201cGet in the car!\u201d he bawled .", "he bawled for days after his dog died", "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb", "Owner Annie Blake put on waterproof mascara, the better to bawl her eyes out without looking a complete mess. \u2014 Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel , 28 Apr. 2022", "Deslyn remembers the day with perfect clarity, her teenage son, a senior in high school, bawling in the front seat of the family car, her not understanding what was wrong. \u2014 Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star , 1 Nov. 2019", "My dad pulled over on the side of the road bawling in Edmonton. \u2014 Karen Bliss, Billboard , 5 Apr. 2019", "Kanarowski-Peterson said another woman gave her a check for $500 and started bawling . \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 14 Jan. 2020", "In those opening exchanges, Virgil van Dijk was left bawling at his fellow defenders as Salzburg threatened to take the lead on several occasions. \u2014 John Sinnott, CNN , 10 Dec. 2019", "Yet a version of them, bawling and pleading, will remain on the Internet, frozen in time. \u2014 Hua Hsu, The New Yorker , 11 Sep. 2019", "Ahmad goes to his mom\u2019s room and finds her on the edge of her bed, hunched over, bawling into hands that are balled into fists. \u2014 Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star , 3 Aug. 2019", "Whilst the bawling politicians send Britain hurtling towards a no-deal crash-out from Europe at the end of March, the U.K. government is surreptitiously hiring crisis-emergency personnel to handle the unplanned-for chaos. \u2014 Sarah Mower, Vogue , 14 Feb. 2019", "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun", "As the weekend\u2019s big game approached, David Singleton could have staged his own super bawl . \u2014 Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022", "That night, Faris saw a woman near her bawl and wide-eyed grown-ups run. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 July 2021", "Distillers bury their faces in their hands and bawl after learning MLB\u2019s winter meetings will go virtual. \u2014 Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 31 Oct. 2020", "Wilkins communicates differently \u2014 at a higher rate of notes per minute \u2014 peppering you with action before letting his tone disintegrate into a dry bawl . \u2014 New York Times , 12 Mar. 2020", "The new study is just one in a series of recent reports that reveal the centrality of crying to infant survival, and how a baby\u2019s bawl punches through a cluttered acoustic landscape to demand immediate adult attention. \u2014 Natalie Angier, New York Times , 4 Sep. 2017" ], "first_known_use":{ "1533, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb", "1566, in the meaning defined above":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English, to bark, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Icelandic baula to low":"Verb", "noun derivative of bawl entry 1":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8b\u022fl" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "blub", "blubber", "cry", "sob", "weep" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101043", "type":[ "noun", "verb" ] }, "bawl one's eyes out":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to cry loudly especially for a long time.":[ "It's the saddest book I've ever read. I bawled my eyes out at the end." ] }, "examples":[], "first_known_use":{}, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-184045", "type":[ "idiom" ] }, "bawl out":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": to reprimand loudly or severely":[ "Her boss bawled her out for forgetting the meeting." ] }, "examples":[ "got loudly bawled out by the coach for making mistake after stupid mistake" ], "first_known_use":{ "1899, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "baste", "berate", "call down", "castigate", "chastise", "chew out", "dress down", "flay", "hammer", "jaw", "keelhaul", "lambaste", "lambast", "lecture", "rag", "rail (at ", "rant (at)", "rate", "ream (out)", "rebuke", "reprimand", "reproach", "scold", "score", "tongue-lash", "upbraid" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094935", "type":[ "verb" ] } }