RIBALDRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ribaldry mean? 

• RIBALDRY (noun)
  The noun RIBALDRY has 2 senses:

1. ribald humor

2. behavior or language bordering on indelicacy

  Familiarity information: RIBALDRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIBALDRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ribald humor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ribaldry" is a kind of...):

humor; humour; wit; witticism; wittiness (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Behavior or language bordering on indelicacy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gaminess; raciness; ribaldry; spiciness

Hypernyms ("ribaldry" is a kind of...):

indelicacy (the trait of being indelicate and offensive)

 Context examples 

Now, when any vicious simpleton excites my disgust by his paltry ribaldry, I cannot flatter myself that I am better than he: I am forced to confess that he and I are on a level.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)