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"expansion": "bawd (third-person singular simple present bawds, present participle bawding, simple past and past participle bawded)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To procure women for lewd purposes."
],
"links": [
[
"procure",
"procure"
],
[
"lewd",
"lewd"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) To procure women for lewd purposes."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/bɔːd/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/bɔd/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːd"
},
{
"homophone": "board"
},
{
"homophone": "bored (non-rhotic)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bawd.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bawd.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bawd.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bawd.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bawd.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "bôd",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "baud"
},
{
"word": "baude"
}
],
"word": "bawd"
}
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