Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Obscene, lewd, or vulgar.
- adjective Grimy; unkempt.
- adjective Uninhibited. Used of sex.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Very low
class ;inferior ;inadequate . - adjective With
dishonorable ,base andvulgar expression. - adjective Having socially
unacceptable sexual behavior . - adjective Sexually
seductive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
- adjective earthy and sexually explicit
- adjective suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They brought in raunchy dances which Derek made indecent.
'Dancing With the Stars': Who's going home, and why hasn't season 9 been more ridiculous? | EW.com 2009
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But when I hear the word raunchy, to me that describes Jenna Jameson.
Jenna Jameson Calls Chelsea Handler 'Dried Up Old Wh**e' Jordan Zakarin 2011
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But when I hear the word raunchy, to me that describes Jenna Jameson.
Jenna Jameson Calls Chelsea Handler 'Dried Up Old Wh**e' Jordan Zakarin 2011
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Audiences have become more discriminating about their choices in raunchy humor, so I am pegging Role Models for something in the $12. 7M range and a 2nd place finish.
Box Office Tracking: $60M opening and $200M domestic possible for Madagascar 2 | /Film 2008
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July 22, 2008 10: 27 AM wow, nice ... lets go see what she's been up to (nothin raunchy i hope LOL) ... go blogHers!!!
She is a BlogHer 2008
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Jackie Collins has been called a "raunchy moralist" by the late director Louis Malle and "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair magazine.
unknown title 2011
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But when I hear the word raunchy, to me that describes Jenna Jameson.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Jackie Collins has been called a "raunchy moralist" by the late director Louis Malle and "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair magazine.
unknown title 2011
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But it is his inner angel that holds the Gregson family together and maintains a loving environment for characters and viewers alike, even when the show is at its most rude and raunchy, which is much of the time.
Showtime Has Two New Winners in "United States of Tara" and "Nurse Jackie" 2009
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She complained that the L.A. Times article used "graphic descriptions that make the material sound like hard-core porn when, in fact, it is more accurately described as raunchy humor."
wordshiner commented on the word raunchy
Raunchy, derived from ranchero, also connotes dirty and smelly, like your gym clothes after a few workouts.
December 10, 2009