Ribald

Adjective

 * 1) Coarsely, vulgarly or lewdly humorous.
 * 2) * 1693, Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux (Trans.), François Rabelais' Gargantua an Pantagruel, The Third Book, Chapter XXVII:
 * [L]et no zealous Christian trust the rogue,--the filthy ribald rascal is a liar.
 * 1) * 1875, May 15, Anonymous, "Mr. Carl Schurz and the Democratic Party", Harper's Weekly:
 * But when he died the "Reform Democracy" instinctively returned to its vomit of ribald insult.
 * 1) * 1888, Ambrose Pierce, "A Fruitless Assignment", Can Such Things Be? (Pub. 1893):
 * [T]he curious crowd had collected in the street, with here and there a scoffer uttering his incredulity and courage with scornful remarks or ribald cries.

Noun

 * 1) A person who is filthy or vulgar.
 * 2) * 1483 [1900 edition], William Caxton (Trans.), Jacobus de Voragine, "Life of S. Paul the first Hermit", The Golden Legend:
 * After, he made an harlot, a ribald, come to him alone for to touch his members and his body, to move to lechery.

Adverbs for Ribald
coarsely; comically; hilariously; disgustingly; grossly; indecently; uproariously; boisterously; shockingly; appallingly; crassly; brazenly; blatantly; flagrantly; openly; notoriously; infamously; inexcusably; unpardonably; villainously; deliberately; impudently; shamelessly; shamefully; daringly

Thesaurus
Babbitt, Fescennine, Philistine, Rabelaisian, abusive, arriviste, bawdy, blasphemous, blue, boor, bounder, bourgeois, cad, calumniatory, calumnious, churl, clown, coarse, comminatory, contumelious, crass, crude, cursing, damnatory, denunciatory, devil, dirty, dysphemistic, earthy, enfant terrible, epicier, epithetic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulminatory, fulsome, gaudy, gross, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, imprecatory, impure, ithyphallic, lewd, looby, loud, lout, low fellow, lurid, maledictory, meretricious, mischief, mucker, nasty, nouveau riche, obscene, offensive, parvenu, peasant, pornographic, profane, rapscallion, rascal, raunchy, raw, risque, rogue, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rude, ruffian, salacious, scalawag, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, slyboots, smoking-room, smutty, sultry, unchaste, unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, upstart, vile, vituperative, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel

Etymology
From, from ribaud:, ribauld: ( > French ribaud:), from riber:, of  origin, from Old  *undefined:, from , from  +  -auld:, from Old  *undefined:. Cognate with Old High German riban:, wrijven:. Compare also hriba:. More at.

Adjective

 * Armenian: կոպիտ, գռեհիկ,  անվայել
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Russian: ,


 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: скаредан, вулгаран
 * Roman: skaredan, vulgaran

Noun

 * Armenian: զազրախոս, հայհոյախոս
 * Bosnian: hulnik
 * Old Norse: ribbaldi
 * Russian:


 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: хулник
 * Roman: hulnik

Related terms

 * ribaldry

Anagrams

 * bridal