Obs. Forms: 4–5 baudy, 5–6 bawdy, 6 baudye, 7 bawdy. [Derivation unknown. Skeat compares W. bawaidd dirty, f. baw mud. The F. boue ‘mud’ is probably of same origin.]
Soiled, dirty, filthy.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. V. 197. A tauny tabarde … Al totorne and baudy, and ful of lys crepynge.
c. 1430. Lydg., Bochas, IX. xxxiv. (1554), 214 b. He … in the kechen laye Among the pottes with baudy coate.
1527. Whitinton, Vulg., 28 b. Holde thy bawdy handes fro my boke … My handes be as clene as thyne.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. iii. III. (1651), 323. Slovenly cooks, that … never wash their bawdy hands.
b. fig. of language: Vile, abominable, barbarous.
1519. Horman, Vulg., 90 b. Them that wyll nat come out of theyr baudy latyn [qui barbariem nunquam exuunt].
