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单词 raunch
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raunchn.

Brit. /rɔːn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /rɔn(t)ʃ/, /rɑn(t)ʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by back-formation. Etymon: raunchy adj.
Etymology: Back-formation < raunchy adj.
colloquial (originally U.S.).
1. U.S. (chiefly Military). Shabbiness, dirtiness, grubbiness. Chiefly in raunch cap n. historical a military cap worn in an intentionally dirty state or slipshod manner to suggest the extensive battle experience of its wearer. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] > and meanness
squalor1621
sorditude1623
sordidness1656
squalidity1668
squalidness1727
frowziness1729
sordor1823
seediness1832
fluffiness1860
grubbiness1866
crumbiness1949
raunch1952
scruffiness1974
grunginess1978
scuzziness1980
grottiness1984
1952 J. E. Wylie Face to Face 17 The good-natured insults, the snafu and raunch and buddy-buddy and ‘Screw 'em all, the long and the short and the tall’, and ‘Gee, Mom, I wanna go home’. It was suddenly this afternoon no longer seemly.
1954 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 25 Aug. 6/3 The ‘sonic boom’ as the phenomenon came to be known, became a proud new part of the Air Force, akin to the ‘raunch’ cap of World War II.
1967 Time 18 Aug. 63 Calvin Coolidge High is an actual Manhattan school building, its rust and raunch unretouched for the camera.
1968 A. Coppel Order of Battle 42 He pushed his raunch cap back on his head and stood surveying us.
2. Coarseness, vulgarity, smut; energetic earthiness.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > lewdness, bawdiness, or obscenity
filthOE
harlotryc1384
filthiness?1504
brothelry?1526
lewdness1578
obscenity1589
obscenousness1591
spurcity1608
obscenenessa1637
bawdiness1731
priapism1758
nast1789
hircosity1873
raunch1957
raunchiness1962
sluttiness1972
slackness1980
1957 Coe Cosmos (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 17 Jan. 2/3 You can't even fill a raunch column [sc. a gossip column in a newspaper] with raunch.
1971 H. Gold Magic Will 51 New York is a dream of power, abstract, a head-city, despite the smells of raunch,the luxuries of women, food, drink, and art.
1978 Maclean's 4 Dec. 65/1 The result is a 200,000-word flop, in which raunch doesn't work and the highfalutin philosophy sinks without a trace.
1990 Rolling Stone 12 July 35/4 They were able to keep the attitude and raunch intact.
2006 The Word July 97/1 There's certainly more suggestion than raunch here.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

raunchv.

Brit. /rɔːn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /rɔn(t)ʃ/, /rɑn(t)ʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: raunch n.
Etymology: < raunch n. Compare earlier raunchy adj.
colloquial (originally North American).
transitive. With up. To make more lively or sexually provocative; to make raunchy. to raunch it up: (of a person) to behave in a sexy or raunchy manner.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > carry on vigorously [verb (transitive)] > make lively
alacriate1560
spright1611
to fig up1810
to funk up1972
raunch1976
to funk out1995
1976 Los Angeles Times 22 Feb. (Calendar section) 2/2 It would have been facile to raunch it up ‘Mandingo’ fashion.
1981 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 1 Dec. Cockburn donning a floppy fedora to raunch it up on stage.
1983 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 6 June 18/4 She tried all night to raunch up her image—showing a flash of thigh through the slit in her..dress.
1997 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 30 Aug. Some fans would like to raunch things up a bit.
2003 Sneak 2 Sept. 6/2 Beyoncé writhed around him sexily and he raunched it up big time.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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