'Ribaldry' definitions:
Definition of 'ribaldry'
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Definition of 'Ribaldry'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The ribaldry of his conversation moved ?stonishment even in that age. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ribaldry'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bad language,
- bawdiness,
- bawdry,
- billingsgate,
- blue language,
- blue movie,
- coarseness,
- colorful language,
- crassness,
- crudeness,
- crudity,
- cursing,
- cussing,
- dirt,
- dirtiness,
- dirty language,
- dirty movie,
- dirty talk,
- dissoluteness,
- dysphemism,
- earthiness,
- erotic art,
- erotic literature,
- erotographomania,
- evil speaking,
- fescenninity,
- filth,
- filthiness,
- filthy language,
- foul language,
- foulness,
- gaudiness,
- grossness,
- iconolagny,
- immodesty,
- indecency,
- indelicacy,
- lasciviousness,
- lewdness,
- licentiousness,
- looseness,
- loudness,
- lubricity,
- lustfulness,
- meretriciousness,
- nastiness,
- naughtiness,
- obscenity,
- offensiveness,
- pornographic art,
- pornographic literature,
- pornographomania,
- pornography,
- profane swearing,
- profanity,
- Rabelaisianism,
- raciness,
- rakishness,
- rankness,
- rascality,
- rawness,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- salaciousness,
- salacity,
- scatology,
- scurrility,
- sexploitation,
- shamelessness,
- skin flick,
- smut,
- smuttiness,
- soft-core pornography,
- stag film,
- strong language,
- swearing,
- unparliamentary language,
- unrepeatable expressions,
- vile language,
- vileness,
- vulgar language,
- vulgarity,
- wantonness,
- X-rated movie