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What does bawdry mean?

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This will prove rare sport, to see how the poet's genius will grapple with this bawdry!
He condescends to talk the silly bawdry of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Indeed, even before he took up the Burns Fellowship, Baxter had decided that bawdry was the weapon to wield against Otago's emasculating academics.
Out of the strange melange of bawdry and bloodshed would emerge the origins of his irrepressible folk humour.
He was a pioneer in the movement against Restoration wit and bawdry which later became synonymous with Jeremy Collier.
This poetic output, at a time when post-Chaucerian England was fallow, was a combination of classic grace, religious fervour, eroticism, and bawdry which was almost hypnotic.

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