Definition of "lewd" in Anglais

adjective

1. Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.

2. (obsolete) Lay; not clerical.

3. (obsolete) Uneducated.

   • My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, / For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; / But my learning is of another degree / To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.

4. (obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.

5. (obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.

noun

1. A sexually suggestive image, particularly one which does not involve full nudity.

verb

1. (slang, ambitransitive) To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.

2. (fandom slang, transitive) To sexualize a character, especially in a fan illustration.

verb

1. (slang) Alternative form of lude (“take the drug quaalude”).