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单词 raunchy
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raunchyadj.

Brit. /ˈrɔːn(t)ʃi/, U.S. /ˈrɔn(t)ʃi/, /ˈrɑn(t)ʃi/
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.Perhaps compare English regional (west midland and south-western) raunch to eat greedily, devour, to tear up, to snatch greedily, and also the related adjective raunch (of vegetables) green, uncooked (see Eng. Dial. Dict. at raunch v. and adj.). In early use frequently in U.S. military aviation.
colloquial (originally U.S. Military).
1. Chiefly U.S. Inept, slipshod, slovenly; esp. unkempt, shabby, dirty. Also: unpleasant, disreputable.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective]
theowlikec1175
wickc1175
wretcha1200
lechera1300
vilea1300
feeblea1325
brothely1330
caitiffa1400
roinousa1425
basec1450
harlotry1486
filthy1533
brockish1546
vild1568
tinkerly?1576
scabbed?1577
miscreant1593
unnoble1593
slavish1597
rascally1600
roguish1601
sordidous1602
facinoriousa1616
scullion1658
dirty1670
shabbed1674
shabby1679
scoundrel1681
scabby1712
verminating1720
small1824
low-down1865
verminiferous1895
ragtime1917
ribby1936
raunchy1937
scungy1966
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > dirty and mean
ungoderlyc1400
sluttish?1529
squalid1596
scrubbing1603
sordid1611
snotty1681
frowzy1710
grub1719
seedy1725
unkempt1838
grubby1844
crumby1859
ratty1867
scruffy1871
scrutty1914
scummy1932
ribby1936
raunchy1937
sleazy1941
scroungy1948
manky1958
skanky1963
grungy1965
scungy1966
scuzzy1969
scrungy1974
skeevy1976
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > awkward or inept
unrekena1325
untoward1557
unfeatya1586
unhappy1651
ungaina1657
unadept1830
jackleg1833
jack-legged1839
inapt1860
inadept1875
unpractical1890
raunchy1937
stumblebum1940
ham1941
1937 B. Lay I wanted Wings iii. 52 You're gigged, Mister. Raunchy shoeshine. Raunchy brass. Raunchy haircut. Raunchy shave.
1949 Cavalier Daily (Univ. Virginia) 22 Oct. 4/1 This situation could become embarrassing—if the writer in question happened to be well-known as a somewhat raunchy character in reality.
1955 J. Archibald Aviation Cadet iv. 39 I had a raunchy kay-det who was afraid to land the plane.
1965 D. E. Westlake Fugitive Pigeon 170 I suddenly felt raunchy. Still in the same slacks I'd been wearing when this thing started.
1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Nov. 18/7 I'll bet..the girls would boycott guys with dirty, tangled hair, filthy jeans, raunchy sweat shirts and bare feet.
1979 Now! 14 Sept. 87/3 Millgarth police station, down the rough, raunchy end of Leeds's city centre.
2003 S. Hill Tall, Dark, & Cajun 41 A raunchy odor permeated the air, no doubt due to all the animals that had to have bitten the dust to produce all those skins.
2. Energetically earthy and unrefined; sexually explicit or provocative; lewd, bawdy, suggestive.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > lewd, bawdy, or obscene
lewdc1386
filthy?c1400
knavishc1405
sensual?a1425
ribaldousc1440
dishonestc1450
bawdya1513
ribald?a1513
ribaldious?1518
slovenly?1518
ribaldry1519
priapish1531
ribaldish?1533
filthous1551
ribaldly1570
obscene1571
bawdisha1586
obscenous1591
greasy1598
dirty1599
fulsome1600
spurcitious1658
lasciviating1660
smutty1668
bawdry1764
ribaldric1796
un-Quakerlike1824
fat1836
ithyphallic1856
hot1892
rorty1898
rude1919
bitchy1928
feelthy1930
raunchy1943
ranchy1959
down and dirty1969
steamy1970
sleazo1972
1943 E. C. Piech Diary 22 Jan. in Wartime Diaries (2001) ii Went to [the] Sawtooth Club, a ‘raunchy’ club.
1961 M. Terry Old Liberty v. 32 The boys sang some raunchy songs, but the bishop didn't seem to mind.
1967 ‘E. Queen’ Face to Face iv. 17 I fell in love with him. In a raunchy sort of way he's beautiful.
1988 S. Huss in S. Ravenel New Stories from South (1989) 97 Harper had never had such raunchy sex before, he had said, that had been the most lewd experience of his entire life.
2003 Sun 13 Mar. 3/3 The Rolling Stones have been ordered to axe four hits from concerts in China next month—because of raunchy lyrics.

Derivatives

ˈraunchily adv.
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1969 Los Angeles Times 16 Sept. iv. 15/2 Steppenwolf drove several hundred of the Dogs' fans toward the exits with several of their raunchily bluesy former hits.
2003 Time Out N.Y. 7 Aug. 115/2 Aguilera raunchily indulges her inner Xtina in an impressively eclectic set.
ˈraunchiness n.
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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
1962 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 19 Aug. iii. 2/1 As the riots and raunchiness swelled day by day, it became evident that the Cubans had made a political mess out of the whole affair.
1975 New Yorker 20 Jan. 62/3 A shaggy-dog tale of a raunchiness Tolstoyan in scale, if not in tone, is related with single-minded, uninterruptible passion by one of the male guests.
1994 Impact Oct. 22/3 The films' lack of raunchiness is a big factor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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