<<I think #3 is what we were talking about, "given to the
indulgence of lewd ideas, impure-minded, characterized by
lasciviousness of thought or mind."<>>
That is exactly what I was talking about when I said 'sexual' isn't necessarily 'prurient' -- the difference being the connotation of impurity. It isn't necessarily prurient just because it's hot. -- The newlyweds vs. the bellhop, was my point.
And I'd go further and say it isn't necessarily unprurient just because it's not hot. That's why euphemisms are so prurient sometimes. They are often gratuitously dirty-minded.
I see that my OED, which is the 13 volume 1933 edition, for 'bawdy' gives:
Of, pertaining to, or befitting a bawd,; lewd, obscene, unchaste.
Which surprised me, because I know it has certainly come to connote humor in the 65 years or so since the OED was published, so I looked in the one volume American Heritage published in 1992, and for 'bawdy,' it offers:
1. Humorously coarse; risque
2. Vulgar; lewd.
I'm not sure where this discussion originated, and can't bear to do archeology right now, but i think it was with a characterization of a particular post of nihil's which it seems to me 'bawdy' would be a good word for-- humorously coarse; risque.
I stumbled in on a new, funny (to me) thread today, called Do You Think I Am? I'll give a link to a post there I consider bawdy but not prurient. Nobody should click on it who is easily disturbed by sexual references or thinks reading them will make them go to hell when they die.
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The post immediately following it is funny, too. |
