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Raunchy

//ˈɹɔːnt͡ʃi// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Smutty; indecent.
  2. 2
    Lecherous.
  3. 3
    Sexually seductive.
  4. 4
    Very low-class; inferior; inadequate.
  5. 5
    With dishonorable, base and vulgar expression.
Adjective
  1. 1
    thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot wordnet
  2. 2
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness wordnet
  3. 3
    earthy and sexually explicit wordnet

Etymology

Of unknown etymology. Originally U.S. Army Air Corps slang; origins among cadets in Texas suggest a possible connection to Mexican Spanish rancho (see ranch), which had connotations of animal filth by 1864.

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