Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A house of prostitution.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house of lewdness and prostitution; a house of ill-fame.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
bawdy-house .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a building where prostitutes are available
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Examples
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“You were as drunk as a lord last time I saw you, and about to go off to the bawdyhouse with that wench…Lord, she had an arse on her,” he added reminiscently.
A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007
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“You were as drunk as a lord last time I saw you, and about to go off to the bawdyhouse with that wench…Lord, she had an arse on her,” he added reminiscently.
A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007
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He exposed a widely tolerated bawdyhouse known as the Chicken Ranch in La Grange.
Marvin Zindler, Eyewitness News! : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2007
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Wasn't hardly nobody comin" by the bawdyhouse where I was at, either, what with so many men bein" away to the war.
The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960
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Worse than this, the woman lived in a bawdyhouse downtown, with
The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923
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Thousands of them came to Chicago answering advertisements for "servants" and "factory hands," and found themselves trapped by fake employment agencies, and locked up in a bawdyhouse.
The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923
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He was surprised in a bawdyhouse by two policemen.
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Thousands of them came to Chicago answering advertisements for "servants" and "factory hands," and found themselves trapped by fake employment agencies, and locked up in a bawdyhouse.
The Jungle 1906
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Worse than this, the woman lived in a bawdyhouse downtown, with a coarse, red-faced Irishman named Connor, who was the boss of the loading-gang outside, and would make free with the girls as they went to and from their work.
The Jungle 1906
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It ill befits the distance between your Highness and me to send you for ocular conviction to a jakes or an oven, to the windows of a bawdyhouse, or to a sordid lantern.
English Satires Various 1885
mollusque commented on the word bawdyhouse
Brothel. Also spelled "bawdy house", and "bawdy-house", each of the three in about equal proportions in a Google Book search.
I prefer the single word (mononym) as perhaps the only English word with -wdyh- in it (for those who keep track of such arcana).
By the way John, it's fantastic that the search box in Wordie shows all the words containing a sequence of letters. What a capital tool!
November 5, 2007