Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Obscene, lewd, or vulgar: "[He] uses language so aggressively raunchy that he seems to be insisting his choice of vocabulary, at least, is no sin” ( Wall Street Journal).
- adj. Sexually explicit.
- adj. Exhibiting lust.
- adj. Slang Grimy; unkempt: a raunchy closet full of dirty socks.
Wiktionary
- adj. Very low class; inferior; inadequate.
- adj. With dishonorable, base and vulgar expression.
- adj. Having socially unacceptable sexual behavior.
- adj. Sexually seductive.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
- adj. earthy and sexually explicit
- adj. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They brought in raunchy dances which Derek made indecent.”
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“But when I hear the word raunchy, to me that describes Jenna Jameson.”
The Huffington Post: Jenna Jameson Calls Chelsea Handler 'Dried Up Old Wh**e'
“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
“July 22, 2008 10: 27 AM wow, nice ... lets go see what she's been up to (nothin raunchy i hope LOL) ... go blogHers!!!”
“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"
“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.”
“The artist formerly known as a raunchy rocker returns, and now he's got a new tamer persona.”
“The artist formerly known as the raunchy rocker returns, but this time with a new tamer persona.”
“After all, Hockney is best known as the raunchy Californian sensualist who painted sun-kissed boys gliding through the azure swimming pools of Los Angeles in the Sixties.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘raunchy’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
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buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 274 more... -
Words with 'aunch' in them.
For some reason this combination has always appealed to me; sometimes to the point of altering words to make them.
launch, staunch, paunch, craunch, haunch, aunchient, traunch, raunchy, launcheon, raunch, paunchy, faunch and 17 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Collage's Words
subtle, calamity, impale, qat, painterly, piebald, surly, nihilistic, repine, slake, larder, sepulchre and 349 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Vocab
All the words I've come across whose definitions I did not know then.
aberration, abrogate, abscond, abstruse, acolyte, actuate, adulation, advert, aggrandize, aggro, ague, alimony and 273 more...
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words I have an irrational and burnin...
celesbian, crouch, perez hilton, slop, lotus boob, anal fissure, eat out, crotch, sewage, backwash, vomit, pus and 100 more...
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I'd rather not say
words that grate on my nerves (mainly because of the way they sound, not what they mean)
yogurt, belly, asthma, spruce, daisy, rutabaga, petunia, toot, fecal, oodles, pansy, buddy and 20 more...
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Beloved
my favorite words ever
quandary, ancestors, ruckus, rabid, rampant, dreadful, precious, hatred, carbuncle, carcass, raunchy, acrid and 2 more...
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ENG
shenanigan, scab, make-or-break chance, to do s.o a disse..., wean, graze, trite, hype-mongering, slipper, chew up, keychain, stash and 23 more...
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Leper-chan's Words
thrust, vandalize, tape, disgruntled, defibulator, delicious, holey-hole, stab, kazoo, kapow, delete, fabulous and 87 more...
Tweets
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wordshiner Raunchy, derived from ranchero, also connotes dirty and smelly, like your gym clothes after a few workouts. Dec 10, 2009