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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bawdry, Baudrie, n. Also: bawd(e)rie; badrie. [e.m.E. bawdrie, etc., ME. bawdery (Chaucer).] Procurement; immorality, lewdness, Also attrib. with language, etc.(a) 1513 Doug. iv. Prol. 184 (of brokkaris and syk bawdry); xii. Prol. 210 (to hant bawdry). 1560 Rolland Seven S. 71/32 (of thy bawdrie I am expart); 75/29 (to haue punischement for thy baudrie). 1567 G. Ball. 1 (baudrie and unclene sangis). 1572 Sat. P. xxxiii. 113 (sic vyle bawderie). 1596 Bk. Univ. Kirk III. 874 (filthie and baudrie speiches). 1597 Elgin Rec. II. 61 (na misordour nor baudrie). 1620 Elgin Rec. II. 165 (singing bawdrie songis).(b) 1560 Rolland Seven S. 39/25 (on foull badrie his minde was onlie set). 1587 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 508 (singing of filthie and badrie sangis). 1596 Dalr. I. 158/33 (the badrie of his men of weir). 1614 Elgin Rec. II. 138 (nocht to wse badrie language).