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What does ribaldry mean?

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Noun
  1. Joking or humorous language or behaviour used in a vulgar or lewd fashion.
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The drunkenness, heated arguments and ribaldry of The County Election return in The Verdict of the People, which focuses on the counting of votes.
The program, which was a send-up of panel shows, was noted for its word play, ribaldry, and plain silliness.
There were other, less exalted grades, with less exalted duties and the license probably to engage in satire and ribaldry.
So while North Berwick refracts a little of the capital's prim ambience, Dunoon has something of Glasgow's ribaldry.
He is between Mirbeau's polemical violence, the ribaldry of the Italian comedy and Elizabethan laughter.
It dealt in private scandal and ribaldry, only the more piquant for its pretty flimsy veil of double-entendre.

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