Ribaldry

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  • noun. Vulgar, lewdly humorous language or joking or an instance of it.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The qualities or acts of a ribald; licentious or foul language; ribald conversation; obscenity; indecency.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
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  • noun. Joking or humorous language done in a vulgar or lewd fashion.
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  • noun. ribald humor
  • noun. behavior or language bordering on indelicacy
    • Word Usage
    "Our countryman, in the end of his characters, before the Canterbury tales, thus excuses the ribaldry, which is very gross in many of his novels."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    humor  humour  indelicacy  wit  witticism  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    billingsgate  blasphemy  buffoonery  coarseness  fornication  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Rabelaisianism  X-rated movie  bad language  bawdiness  bawdry  
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