lewd
Plural: lewds
Adjective Satellite
- suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
- "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"
- driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires
Adj
- Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
- Lay; not clerical.
- Uneducated.
- Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
- Base, vile, reprehensible.
Noun
- A sexually suggestive image, particularly one which does not involve full nudity.
Verb
- To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.
- To sexualize a character, especially in a fan illustration.
- Alternative form of lude (“take the drug quaalude”).
Adjective
- Suggestive of sex in a vulgar or offensive way; obscene.
Examples
- Some players try to sneak in lewd words, but the dictionary usually catches them.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English lewed, lewd, leued (“unlearned, lay, lascivious”), from Old English lǣwede (“unlearned, ignorant, lay”), of uncertain origin. Formally similar to a derivative of the past participle of Old English lǣwan (“to reveal, betray”) in the sense of "exposed as being unlearned" or "easily betrayed, clueless", from Proto-West Germanic *lāwijan, from Proto-Germanic *lēwijaną (“to betray”), from *lēwą (“an opportunity, cause”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēw- (“to leave”). If so, then cognate with Old High German gilāen, firlāen (“to betray”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (galēwjan, “to give over, betray”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐍅 (lēw, “an opportunity, cause”). Or, according to the OED, probably from Vulgar Latin *laigo-, from Late Latin lāicus (“of the people”), from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós).
Synonyms
lascivious, libidinous, lustful, obscene, raunchy, salacious, lecherous, lubricious
Scrabble Score: 8
lewd: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlewd: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lewd: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary