Bawd

Lussurioso undermines her first, more for her being a woman and a mother: "The name [of 'bawd']/is so in league with age that nowadays/It does eclipse three-quarters of a mother." ❋ Fantasyecho (2008)

If you're a fan of vampires, but don't want to see high school kids staring longingly at each other before taking vows of chastity, then we highly recommend that you tune in for this adult-oriented "bawd" ville horror-fest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(1. 3.147-149) and even undermines her motherly status, observing that bawds are often older women, and mothers are older women (usually): "The name [of 'bawd']/is so in league with age that nowadays/It does eclipse three-quarters of a mother." ❋ Fantasyecho (2008)

"bawd:" Cf. Letter 60, note 14 and Feb. 18, 1712-13. ❋ Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 (1901)

12 Forster reads, "devil's brood"; probably the second word is "bawd:" Cf. Letter 60, note 14 and Feb. 18, 1712-13. ❋ Jonathan Swift (1706)

But Shakespeare makes him live with himself and the consequences of his human weakness (not hypocrisy -- the Duke is hypocritical when he plays bawd to Mariana, but Angelo knows exactly what he's doing). ❋ Deliasherman (2010)

As Martin Lindstrom reminds us in "Brandwashed," marketers make sneaky appeals to our fears and desires, leverage our social connections to maximize peer pressure, dazzle us with tinfoil celebrity and lure us with sexual come-ons that would embarrass a bawd. ❋ Eric Felten (2011)

New Haven was a feast of fat things—now the young wife in "La Ronde," now the bawd in "Pericles," now a play by Euripides, now by Strindberg, now the leading lady, now the ingénue. ❋ Joanne Kaufman (2011)

Best of all is the wonderful, pivotal scene in which Tilly Tremayne's well-judged, shrewd widow takes on Harriet Walter's glittering bawd at chess. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I took him off to a very high-priced place I knew in St John's Wood, swore the old bawd to secrecy, and stated the randy little pig's requirements. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

Who she was, by the way, I never discovered; she looked like a typical half-caste bawd who'd been employed as a go-between because she was obviously neutral and inoffensive. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A notorious bawd Mother Wickham, who cunningly seduces the heroine into a life of prostitution in a Cheapside brothel, soon approaches her. ❋ Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (2009)

UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: After I bawd him an Oreo McFlurry, he told me I was 21 and I took him home. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[278] Vow virginity, talk of holiness, and yet indeed a notorious bawd, and famous fornicator, lascivum pecus, a very goat. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Such tricks you shall have in many places, and amongst the rest it is ordinary in Venice, and in the island of Zante, for a man to be bawd to his own wife. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The eye is a secret orator, the first bawd, Amoris porta, and with private looks, winking, glances and smiles, as so many dialogues they make up the match many times, and understand one another's meanings, before they come to speak a word. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Another hath been a bawd, a pander to some great men, a parasite, a slave, [3633] prostituted himself, his wife, daughter, to some lascivious prince, and for that he is exalted. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[5195] Spanish bawd said, gaudet illa habere unum in lecto, alterum in porta, tertium qui domi suspiret, she will have one sweetheart in bed, another in the gate, a third sighing at home, a fourth, &c. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You [Donkey-Sucking-Freshman-Flaker], go flak an [epicene] bawd! [Hobar]! ❋ You're A Donkey-Sucking-Freshman-Flaker (2004)

'Oh my gosh you guys! I stayed [up 10] mins. past my bedtime [to read a book] about church! Aren't I [bawd]?!' ❋ Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (2007)

"I stayed [up 10] minutes past my [bedtime] to read my book about church! Arent i [bawd]?" ❋ LOLZZZZZDOPE (2007)

[She is] [such a] mawd bawd!!! [Look at that] mawd bawd. ❋ Kevin Wilson Jr 123 (2014)