Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A house of prostitution.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A house of lewdness and prostitution; a house of ill-fame.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of bawdy-house.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a building where prostitutes are available
Examples
“He exposed a widely tolerated bawdyhouse known as the Chicken Ranch in La Grange.”
Marvin Zindler, Eyewitness News! : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
““You were as drunk as a lord last time I saw you, and about to go off to the bawdyhouse with that wench…Lord, she had an arse on her,” he added reminiscently.”
“Wasn't hardly nobody comin" by the bawdyhouse where I was at, either, what with so many men bein" away to the war.”
The Guns Of The South
“Worse than this, the woman lived in a bawdyhouse downtown, with”
“He was surprised in a bawdyhouse by two policemen.”
“Thousands of them came to Chicago answering advertisements for "servants" and "factory hands," and found themselves trapped by fake employment agencies, and locked up in a bawdyhouse.”
“Worse than this, the woman lived in a bawdyhouse downtown, with a coarse, red-faced Irishman named Connor, who was the boss of the loading-gang outside, and would make free with the girls as they went to and from their work.”
“It ill befits the distance between your Highness and me to send you for ocular conviction to a jakes or an oven, to the windows of a bawdyhouse, or to a sordid lantern.”
“NDP Leader Jack Layton blasted a Sun TV News media report Friday citing an unnamed source that he was interviewed by police in a suspected Toronto bawdyhouse in 1996, calling it a "smear campaign.”
“It ill befits the distance between your Highness and me to send you for ocular conviction to a jakes or an oven, to the windows of a bawdyhouse, or to a sordid lanthorn.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bawdyhouse’.
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Sound or sequence
dulcimer, borborygmi, ecchymosis, scrivener, fustilugs, zarf, bawdyhouse, googleable, archfiend, gymkhana, cuckoopint, pilpul and 104 more...
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69 Across
From the February 2010 Harper's, which says, "From a 'blacklist' file included with the latest edition of Crossword Compiler, a British computer program for designing various word puzzles. The file...
zooerastia, whoremasterly, wee-wee, trollop, tribadistic, stiffy, spermary, smooching, shtup, sexy, sapphic, ruttish and 19 more...
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ill-bred
gaucherie, rusticity, rowdyism, scoundrel, blackguard, ruffianism, mauvais plaisanterie, frippery, geegaw, fump, frump, ribald and 30 more...
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mollusque Brothel. Also spelled "bawdy house", and "bawdy-house", each of the three in about equal proportions in a Google Book search.
I prefer the single word (mononym) as perhaps the only English word with -wdyh- in it (for those who keep track of such arcana).
By the way John, it's fantastic that the search box in Wordie shows all the words containing a sequence of letters. What a capital tool! Nov 5, 2007