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raunchy (adj.)

1939, "clumsy, careless, sloppy," U.S. Army Air Corps slang, of unknown origin. Origins among cadets in Texas suggest possible connection to Mexican Spanish rancho (see ranch (n.)), which had connotations of animal filth by 1864. Sense of "coarse, vulgar, smutty" is from 1967. Related: Raunchiness.

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Definitions of raunchy from WordNet

raunchy (adj.)
earthy and sexually explicit;
a raunchy novel
raunchy (adj.)
suggestive of or tending to moral looseness;
Synonyms: lewd / obscene / salacious
raunchy (adj.)
thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot;
Synonyms: begrimed / dingy / grimy / grubby / grungy
From wordnet.princeton.edu