Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ribaldry"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Ribaldry \Rib"ald*ry\, n. [OE. ribaldrie, ribaudrie, OF.
ribalderie, ribauderie.]
The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency;
obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent
language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts
or conduct.

The ribaldry of his conversation moved ?stonishment
even in that age. --Macaulay.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

ribaldry
n 1: ribald humor
2: behavior or language bordering on indelicacy [syn: {gaminess},
{raciness}, {spiciness}]

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