raunchy
/ˈrɔːn(t)ʃi
/adjective (raunchier, raunchiest) informal
1Energetically earthy and sexually explicit: his raunchy new novel...
- ‘When other videos are raunchy, they blur it, they don't edit it,’ Monifah says.
- The tactic ultimately backfired when viewers complained afterward to the BBC Web site that the show wasn't raunchy enough.
- In New York it was just a raunchy, cynical hour and ten minutes.
2US Shabby or grubby: the restaurant’s style is raunchy and the sanitation chancy...
- I finally sneak a look up at him, suddenly feeling incredibly raunchy and dirty.
Derivatives
raunchily
- ‘I don't like the Bratz dolls, or the way the manufacturers dress them,’ she says, referring to the raunchily attired best-selling fashion dolls.
- Lots of people dancing raunchily until their sweat showed on their teeshirts, faces dripping.
- A raunchily energetic jazz-class scene and some dirty dancing in a club demonstrate how hopelessly uptight ballet is compared with Terpsichore's earthier manifestations.
raunchiness
- Total raunchiness and bad language in this chapter.
- The raunchiness of the former stands in marked contrast to the poignancy of the latter.
- A Caribbean breeziness turns to an unexpected raunchiness in which Woods digs into some honking, bar-walking sax.
Origin
1930s: of unknown origin.