bawdily r in a bawdy manner Usage(s) The hero puns bawdily about nights with Ophelia's lubricious ghost. Brother Milo, with laughter that is not meant to be cruel, bawdily recites a solution: "Pull up your petticoat, pull down your drawers . The narrative he wrote captures his era as bawdily and well as do Hogarth's engravings.