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raunchy, a. colloq. (orig. U.S.)|ˈrɔːnʃɪ|
[Origin unknown: cf. ranchy a.]
1. Inept, incompetent, sloppy; unpleasant, contemptible, mean, disreputable; dirty, grubby.
1939Forum & Century July 45/1 Depending on how good or how ‘raunchy’ we [sc. Air Force cadets] were, we drilled from one to three hours in the torrid heat. 1949Cavalier Daily (Univ. of Va.) 22 Oct. 4/1 This situation could become embarrassing—if the writer in question happened to be well-known as a somewhat raunchy character in reality. 1953Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §759/2 Raunchy flying, clumsy flying technique. 1965D. E. Westlake Fugitive Pigeon 170, I suddenly felt raunchy. Still in the same slacks I'd been wearing when this thing started. 1968Amer. Speech 1967 XLII. 229 Raunchy,..a pejorative adjective used to modify anything which the speaker wishes to denigrate, with the general connotation of ‘stinky, grubby, scabby, dirty, or cheap’. 1971Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 30 Nov. 18/7 I'll bet..the girls would boycott guys with dirty, tangled hair, filthy jeans, raunchy sweat shirts and bare feet. 1979Now! 14 Sept. 87/3 Millgarth police station, down the rough, raunchy end of Leeds's city centre.
2. Of persons, their actions, etc.: boisterous, earthy, sexually provocative, aggressively licentious, suggestive. Also in extended uses, esp. of language, humour, songs, etc.: bawdy, salacious, smutty; tending to excite sexual feeling.
1967‘E. Queen’ Face to Face iv. 17, I fell in love with him. In a raunchy sort of way he's beautiful. 1969Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 31 May 44/2 A blend of raunchy humor, unpleasant perversity, and..sickening brutality. 1970Melody Maker 12 Sept. 7 Most of the songs were too twee, and the rest seemed to be too raunchy. 1971Sunday Australian 7 Nov. 27/6 Russell now has two albums of his own on which to disport his raunchy rock compositions. 1973Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 23 Nov. 23/1 A drunk at the next table was singing some raunchy songs. The songs kept getting dirtier and dirtier. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. i. i. 21 They had noticed two raunchy broads going to bathe. 1976Times 4 Feb. 14/4 Jurors are asked to pronounce judgment on a particularly raunchy book, while lawyers make suggestive jokes. 1977Gay News 7–20 Apr. 38/3 (Advt.), Interested in meeting guys in tight raunchy levis to show me around. 1977D. Anthony Stud Game xxiii. 145 If you mean Couplings, I liked it... I happen to like raunchy films.
Hence ˈraunchily adv., in a raunchy manner; ˈraunchiness.
1972Time 17 Apr. 66/3 They are a raunchily genteel exercise. 1975New Yorker 20 Jan. 62/3 A shaggy-dog tale of a raunchiness Tolstoyan in scale, if not in tone, is related with single-minded, uninterruptible passion by one of the male guests. 1977D. O'Sullivan in D. Marcus Best Irish Short Stories II. 96 No..customs and excise officer ever streaked from his intimations of mortality as raunchily as Emily Brontë from the stool. 1980Observer 13 Jan. 36/2 The language is nearly devoid of metaphor, but doesn't shirk a beguiling raunchiness. |