Modifies a noun

• romp: He turned down an opportunity to play the lead in Lawrence of Arabia, and chose instead the bawdy romp Tom Jones.

• humor: Full of bawdy humor, the film follows the amorous adventures of Tom Jones on his travels through 18th Century E. .

• comedy: Watch a few bawdy Jamaican comedies first, says Kwame Kwei-Armah.

• joke: Everyone knows everyone, everyone makes bawdy jokes at each other's expense.

• tale: The Miller's Tale A bawdy tale, telling a rather different story of love, which will leave everyone laughing.

• song: Not so in the case of the bawdy songs of Scotland's National Poet, Robert Burns.

Modifying Another Word

• often: Elizabethan plays were often bawdy and the audiences were rowdy!

• slightly: He knew when to get slightly bawdy, and was smart enough not to go over the line.

• sometimes: In America, however, the term was used for a variety show involving broad comedy and sometimes bawdy content, such as striptease.