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Bawd vs Baud - What's the difference?

bawd | baud |

As nouns the difference between bawd and baud

is that bawd is a person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame while baud is a rate defined as the number of signalling events per second in a data transmission.

As an adjective bawd

is joyous; riotously gay.

As a verb bawd

is to procure women for lewd purposes.

bawd

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Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Joyous; riotously gay.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To procure women for lewd purposes.
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    baud

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

  • (computing, telecommunications) A rate defined as the number of signalling events per second in a data transmission.
  • (computing, informal) Synonym for bps (bits per second), regardless of how many signalling events are necessary to signal each bit.

    • Derived terms

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