| 单词 | raunchy |
| 释义 | raunchy (once / 27876 pages) 1adj 2adj Something raunchy is dirty in one sense or another: it's either literally covered in dirt or suggesting dirty sexual situations. Raunchy started off as Army Air Corps slang for something sloppy in 1939. But by the 60's the word had grown to imply another kind of dirtiness: the vulgar, sexual kind. So these days it's safe to assume that a raunchy movie, for example, is full of foul language, obscenities, and graphic sex scenes. And in case you're wondering, an R-rated movie is much more likely to be raunchy than a G movie. WORD FAMILYraunchy: raunchier, raunchiest, raunchily+/raunch: raunchy USAGE EXAMPLESA teacher found their raunchy writings and confronted the young women’s parents about them. The New Yorker(Nov 27, 2016) Streaming TV: “Lovesick: Season 2” is a British romantic comedy with raunchy humor and a tender heart and well worth catching up with. Seattle Times(Nov 17, 2016) She told the LA Times last week that she had tried to make the film more raunchy. BBC(Nov 13, 2016) 1 1adj earthy and sexually explicit a raunchy novel Syn sexy marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest 2adj suggestive of or tending to moral looseness 2Syn lewd, obscene, salacious dirty (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency adj thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot Syn begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy dirty, soiled, unclean soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime |
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