raunchy
pronunciation
How to pronounce raunchy in British English:
UK [ˈrɔ:ntʃi]
How to pronounce raunchy in American English:
US [ˈrɔntʃi, ˈrɑn-]
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- Adjective:
- earthy and sexually explicit
- suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
- thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
Word Origin
- raunchy (adj.)
- 1939, "clumsy, careless, sloppy," U.S. Army Air Corps slang, of unknown origin. Origins among cadets in Texas suggest possible connection to Mexican Spanish rancho (see ranch (n.)), which had connotations of animal filth by 1864. Sense of "coarse, vulgar, smutty" is from 1967. Related: Raunchiness.
Example
- 1. Have you seen any raunchy spiders around ?
- 2. The boy looks pretty raunchy after a night of drinking .
- 3. Southerners are tight-fisted but raunchy , provincials are easier to please , easterners are sexually liberated and berliners are hard to shock .
- 4. I have taken the raunchy pictures out .
- 5. Still , opponents of the latest move by authorities argue it is unfair to blame the situation only on raunchy comics .