raunchy
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raun·chy
(rôn′chē, rän′-)adj. raun·chi·er, raun·chi·est Slang
1. Obscene, lewd, or vulgar: a raunchy joke.
2. Grimy; unkempt: a raunchy closet full of dirty socks.
3. Uninhibited. Used of sex.
[Origin unknown.]
raun′chi·ly adv.
raun′chi·ness n.
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raunchy
(ˈrɔːntʃɪ)adj, -chier or -chiest
1. openly sexual; lusty; earthy
2. chiefly US slovenly or untidy
[C20: of unknown origin]
ˈraunchily adv
ˈraunchiness n
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raun•chy
(ˈrɔn tʃi, ˈrɑn-)adj. -chi•er, -chi•est.
1. vulgar; smutty.
2. lecherous.
3. dirty; slovenly; grubby.
raun′chi•ness, n.
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| Adj. | 1. | raunchy - earthy and sexually explicit; "a raunchy novel" sexy - marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes" |
| 2. | raunchy - suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" dirty - (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth" | |
| 3. |  raunchy - thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" |
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raunchy
adjective (Slang) sexy, sexual, steamy (informal), earthy, suggestive, lewd, lusty, bawdy, salacious, smutty, lustful, lecherous, ribald, coarse her raunchy new movie
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raunchy
adjectiveSlang. Offensive to accepted standards of decency:
barnyard, bawdy, broad, coarse, dirty, Fescennine, filthy, foul, gross, lewd, nasty, obscene, profane, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty, vulgar.
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Translations
raunchy
[ˈrɔːntʃɪ] ADJ (raunchier (compar) (raunchiest (superl))) [story, film, song] → picante, atrevido; [person] → sexy, provocativo; [clothing] → atrevido, provocativoCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
raunchy
[ˈrɔːntʃi] adj [voice] → grivois(e); [image] → cochon(ne); [scenes, film] → cochon(ne); [magazine] → cochon(ne)Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
raunchy
adj (+er) (inf) person → sexy; film, scene → erotisch, aufreizend; novel → erotisch; clothing → aufreizend, sexy
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