different between racy vs raunchy

English

Etymology

race (“having a characteristic taste (of wines, fruits, etc.)”) +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?si/
• Rhymes: -e?si

Adjective

racy (comparative racier, superlative raciest)

1. Mildly risqué.

2. Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil.

   Synonyms: fresh, rich

3. (figuratively, by extension) Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
4. (programming) Involving a data race or a race condition.
   • 2016, Elvira Albert, Ivan Lanese, Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems

     We evaluate the automatic fence insertion procedure by running our tool on a number of different benchmarks containing racy code.

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References

Anagrams

• Cary, Cray, cary, cray

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra.t?s?/

Noun

racy f

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of raca

English

Etymology

Origin unknown (according to the American Heritage Dictionary).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????nt?i/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /????nt?i/
• Rhymes: -??nt?i, -??nt?i

Adjective

raunchy (comparative raunchier, superlative raunchiest)

1. Smutty; indecent.
2. Lecherous.
3. Sexually seductive.
4. Very low-class; inferior; inadequate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. With dishonorable, base and vulgar expression.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obscene

Translations

Derived terms

• raunch

Anagrams

• unchary