bawdy (1), baudy

[Etym. unknown. Skeat suggests Wel. bawaidd = dirty, from baw =mud.] Foul, dirty, defiled in a physical sense. "Of his worship rekketh he so lite His over est slippe it is not worth a mite As in effect to him, so mote I go; It is all baudy and to-tore also." Chaucer: C. Т. , 16,108. IMG:content-1132.png:[blocks in formation] "Has the pope lately shut up the bawdy -houses, or does he continue to lay a tax upon sin?"-Dennis. * bâwe (1), s. [Bow.] * bawe-line, s. [BOWLINE.] * bawe-man, s. [BOWMAN.]