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RAUNCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does raunch mean?
• RAUNCH (noun)
The noun RAUNCH has 1 sense:
1. the quality of lacking taste and refinement
Familiarity information: RAUNCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of lacking taste and refinement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
coarseness; commonness; grossness; raunch; vulgarism; vulgarity
Hypernyms ("raunch" is a kind of...):
inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)
Derivation:
raunchy (suggestive of or tending to moral looseness)
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