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    BAWD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for moneyplay

    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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