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[ adjective ] humorously vulgar
Examples "bawdy songs" "off-color jokes" "ribald language" Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)It was not even in writing Latin epigrams , sometimes bawdy ones , or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics , or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus 's philological study of the New_Testament . Related terms |
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