[rɔː], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- (of food) not cooked
(e.g: raw eggs)

- (of a part of the body) red and painful, especially as the result of skin abrasion
(e.g: he scrubbed his hands until they were raw)

- (of an emotion or quality) strong and undisguised
(e.g: he exuded an air of raw, vibrant masculinity)

- (of the weather) cold and damp; bleak
(e.g: a raw February night)

- new to an activity or job and therefore lacking experience or skill
(e.g: they were replaced by raw recruits)

- (of the edge of a piece of cloth) not having a hem or selvedge
(e.g: oversewing is used to neaten raw edges)

- from a traditional tribal or rural culture
(e.g: raw tribesmen found themselves increasingly marginalised)


Phrases:
- a raw deal
- come the raw prawn
- in the raw
- touch someone on the raw

Origin:
Old English hrēaw, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rauw and German roh, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek kreas ‘raw flesh’