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raunchy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective raunchy has 3 senses
- raunchy(s = adj.all) Array - earthy and sexually explicit; "a raunchy novel"
- raunchy(s = adj.all) lewd, obscene, salacious - suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" Derived form noun raunch1
- raunchy(s = adj.all) begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy - thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
raunchy, adj. (raunchier, raunchiest) colloq.
1 coarse, earthy, boisterous; sexually provocative.
2 esp. US slovenly, grubby.
1 coarse, earthy, boisterous; sexually provocative.
2 esp. US slovenly, grubby.
Derivative
raunchily adv. raunchiness n.
Etymology
20th c.: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
raunchy
Fescennine, Rabelaisian, bawdy, blue, coarse, dirty, disheveled, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, impure, indecent, ithyphallic, lewd, lurid, messy, nasty, obscene, offensive, pornographic, raw, ribald, salacious, scurrile, scurrilous, slipshod, sloppy, smoking-room, smutty, sultry, unchaste, unclean, unkempt, unneat, unprintable, unrepeatable, untidy, vile, vulgar
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