Brewer's: Ribaldry

is the language of a ribald. (French, ribaud; Old French, ribaudie; Italian, ribalderia, the language of a vagabond or rogue.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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