bawd

/bɔd/

Other forms: bawds

Definitions of bawd

1. noun

   a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
   synonyms: cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl

   types:

   call girl

   a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone

   camp follower

   a prostitute who provides service to military personnel

   comfort woman, ianfu

   a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II

   demimondaine

   a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society

   floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker

   a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets

   white slave

   a woman sold into prostitution

   type of:

   adult female, woman

   an adult female person (as opposed to a man)