Baed vs Bawd - What's the difference?
baed | bawd |
(ba)
In ancient Egyptian mythology, a being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
* 1983 , Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings :
A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame.
*1717 , Ned Ward, :
*:As Whores decay'd and past their Labours, / Turn Bawds , and so assist their Neighbours.
*2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 76:
*:Compared with their opponents, bawds and their associates increasingly had deeper pockets and greater confidence in manipulating the law.
A lewd person.
As verbs the difference between baed and bawd
is that baed is (ba) while bawd is (archaic) to procure women for lewd purposes.As a noun bawd is
a person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame.As an adjective bawd is
(obsolete) joyous; riotously gay.baed
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* * *ba
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(wikipedia ba)Etymology 1
Compare Old French ; French bayerEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- But the Ba , I remembered, could be seen as the mistress of your heart and might or might not decide to speak to you, just as the heart cannot always forgive.