| 释义 |
▪ I. raunch colloq. (orig. U.S.).|rɔːnʃ|
[Back-formation from next.]
a. Shabbiness, grubbiness, dirtiness.
b. Crudeness, vulgarity, licentiousness; boisterousness, earthiness.
1964Time 21 Feb. 46/2 Presley made his pelvis central to his act, and the screams of his admirers were straight from the raunch. 1967Time 18 Aug. 63 Calvin Coolidge High is an actual Manhattan school building, its rust and raunch unretouched for the camera. 1975Manch. Guardian Weekly 2 Aug. 20 Bette Midler is..no Streisand, her material is blue and her songs are old. Yet she's been camped out at one of Broadway's biggest theatres for several months now, making raunch respectable in a sellout review called Clams on the Half Shell. 1976N.Y. Times 9 July c19 There are bars that are all elegance, and bars that are all raunch, and bars that breathe both elegance and raunch and therefore are considered chic. 1978Maclean's Mag. 4 Dec. 65/1 The result is a 200,000-word flop, in which raunch doesn't work and the highfalutin philosophy sinks without a trace. 1979Guardian 14 Mar. 13/6 Her co-producer wanted to raise the raunch-quotient by having her perform in a garter belt.
▪ II. raunch
var. ranch v.1, v.2 Obs. |