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BAWD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

Synonyms:

bawd; cocotte; cyprian; fancy woman; harlot; lady of pleasure; prostitute; sporting lady; tart; whore; woman of the street; working girl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("bawd" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bawd"):

call girl (a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone)

camp follower (a prostitute who provides service to military personnel)

comfort woman; ianfu (a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II)

demimondaine (a female prostitute)

floozie; floozy; hooker; hustler; slattern; street girl; streetwalker (a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets)

white slave (a woman sold into prostitution)

Derivation:

bawdy (humorously vulgar)

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