bawdとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English bawde, baude, from Old French baud (“bold, lively, jolly, gay”). Doublet of bold.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /bɔːd/
  • (米国発音) enPR: bôd, IPA^(key): /bɔd/
  • 韻: -ɔːd
  • 異形同音異義語: board, bored (non-rhotic)

名詞

bawd (複数形 bawds)

1. (now archaic or historical) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame.
   • 1717, Ned Ward, British Wonders:

     As Whores decay'd and past their Labours, / Turn Bawds, and so assist their Neighbours.

   • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, p. 76:

     Compared with their opponents, bawds and their associates increasingly had deeper pockets and greater confidence in manipulating the law.

2. A lewd person.

派生語