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raunchiness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • (Received-Pronunciation) audio
  • /ˈɹɔnt͡ʃinəs/ (General-American)
  • /ˈɹɔːn(t)ʃɪnəs/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree English raunchy Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English raunchiness From raunchy + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The characteristic of being raunchy; sleaze, titillation.
    • Not unexpectedly, we find here a satire not merely of what Eryximakhos says, but of the whole Empedoklean mask that he wears, a satire in which some of the references […] are rather pointed, and much of the humor of which depends upon a certain phallic raunchiness characteristic of Aristophanic comedy. 1993, Daniel E. Anderson, The Masks of Dionysos: A Commentary on Plato’s Symposium (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 40:
    • For all the raunchiness of his product, [Hugh] Hefner remained an unusually complex figure. His Playboy Clubs were open to all races – unheard of at the time, the Sixties – and in 1964, he launched the Playboy Foundation to fight censorship. 2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, ‘Playboy’ Founder, Dead at 91: Legendary Magazine Editor Helped Spark the Sexual Revolution”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2018:
    • But in none of these did he [Murray Schisgal] descend to the vulgarity and witlessness of his new double bill, Twice Around the Park, a television comedy with added raunchiness that would not be permitted on TV. 1982 November 15, John Simon, “Theater: Once is Too Much”, in Edward Kosner, editor, New York, volume 15, number 45, New York, N.Y.: News Group Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 105, column 1:
    • During the summer of 1897 to 1898, he [Norman Lindsay] placed classical Greek and European figures in the landscape of Charterisville near Heidelberg outside Melbourne, and did line and wash drawings for [Giovanni] Boccaccio's Decameron, for whose raunchiness any young bohemian had to be an enthusiast. 2014, Thomas Keneally, “War’s After-shadows: From the Secret Armies to the Reds”, in Australians: Flappers to Vietnam, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 26:

Relateds

raunch · raunchy · raunch out · raunchfest · raunchily