Meanings of bawdy song in English

Away in the distance, he heard voices raised in some bawdy song.

He heard snatches of a bawdy song from Natchez-under-the-hill, faint in the distance.

Changchi Kenchung, our master carpenter with the waxed mustaches, breaks into a bawdy song of praise.

Jon remembered Othor; he had been the one bellowing the bawdy song as the rangers rode out.

These footfalls didn't sound like those of a warrior, however, for they were accompanied by a slurred voice singing a bawdy song.

With their glittering saris, bright makeup and a reputation for bawdy song and dance, hijras, India's transgender minority, are hard to miss.

A wounded soldier insisted on standing upon his chair every quarter hour and howling forth a bawdy song about a one-legged Spanish whore.

One of his rangers, a big ugly man, sang a bawdy song as he saddled his garron, his breath steaming in the cold morning air.

They and Edo try to offend Elizabeth with bawdy songs and stories.

But I know twice as many bawdy songs as he does.

A clamour of drunken men staggered across the bridge behind them, hollering bawdy songs.

Shoveling coal and singing bawdy songs to keep the beat and pass the time.

It was an art form, part of the military culture like bawdy songs and black humor.

Ciaran played elsewhere, replaced onstage by a trio of hennaed women singing bawdy songs and dancing with pantomimed drunkenness.

The poet did not appear to mind... he drank wine with his breakfast and sang bawdy songs as the sun rose.

He draped his arms around his friends, and they lurched toward the longhouse, bawling out the bawdy songs that traditionally accompanied the bedding.