Middle English Dictionary Entry
baudī adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | baudī adj. |
| Etymology | Prob. remodeled form of bauded, q.v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Soiled, filthy, dirty.
Associated quotations
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.635 : His ouersloppe..is al baudy [vr. baudit] and to tore also.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)5.197 : A tauny tabarde..Al totorne and baudy, and ful of lys crepynge.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.2262 : The air off metis and off baudi cookis, Which off custum alday roste and seede.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)9.2927 : Among the pottis, with baudi cote.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Look TM (Hrl 2255)119 : What doth cleer perle on a bawdy boote?
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)300/6,10 : Thy clothis bene bawdy of the grece..turne agayne, thou bawdy kychyn knave!
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)89/9 : Þer come out of þe kychon a broþell bowdet wyth gres, and rubbyd hys stryngys wyth hys bawdy hondys.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)64a : My clothes wer bawdy.