raunchy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   earthy and sexually explicit

   a raunchy novel

2. 2
   adj

   thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot

3. 3
   adj

   suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

4. 4
   adj

   Smutty; indecent.

5. 5
   adj

   Lecherous.

6. 6
   adj

   Sexually seductive.

7. 7
   adj

   Very low-class; inferior; inadequate.

8. 8
   adj

   With dishonorable, base and vulgar expression.

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.