lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
A bawdy story or joke contains humorous references to sex. = lewd. bawdy songs, jokes, stories etc are about sex and are funny, enjoyable, and often noisy (bawd (14-19 centuries), perhaps from baude )
A very small bottle; short measure being among the many means used by the keepers of those houses, to gain what they call an honest livelihood: indeed this is one of the least reprehensible; the less they give a man of their infernal beverages for his money, the kinder they behave to him. (definition from: The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue)