different between raunch vs haunch

English

Etymology

Backformation from raunchy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????nt?/
• (some accents) IPA^(key): /????nt?/
• Rhymes: -??nt?, -??nt?

Noun

raunch (uncountable)

1. Low class condition or content; inferiority; inadequacy.
2. Dishonorable, base, and vulgar expression.
3. Socially unacceptable sexual behavior.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• haunce, haunse
• (architecture) hanch, hance, hanse

Etymology

From Middle English haunche, hanche, from Old French hanche, hance, anche (compare French hanche, Italian anca), from a Germanic source, probably Frankish *hanka, from Proto-Germanic *ankij? (“joint; ankle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ang- (“joint; lith”). Cognate with Old High German ancha, encha, einka (“the leg; joint, bend”) (compare Old High German anchila, enchila (“ankle”), German Hanke (“haunch”), West Frisian hancke (“haunch”). More at ankle.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??nt?/, /h?nt?/
• (some accents) IPA^(key): /h??nt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h?nt?/, /h?nt?/
• Rhymes: -??nt?, -??nt?

Noun

haunch (plural haunches)

1. (anatomy) The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters.

   • But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and perfectly neat and clean.

   • 1855 — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, III

     And the rabbit from his path-way
     Leaped aside, and at a distance
     Sat erect upon his haunches.

   • 1916 — Wilfred Owen, The Wrestlers

     While Heracles, - the thews and cordage of his thighs
     Straitened and strained beyond the utmost stretch
     From quivering heel to haunch like sweating hawsers.

   • c.1918 — Carl Sandburg, Fog

     The fog comes on little cat feet.
     It sits looking over harbor and city
     on silent haunches and then moves on.
2. The loin and leg of a quadruped, especially when used as food.
   • 18?? — John Greenleaf Whittier, The Garrison of Cape Ann

     On the rough-hewn oaken table the venison haunch was shared.

3. (architecture) A squat vertical support structure.
4. (dialect) A jerked underhand throw.

Translations

Verb

haunch (third-person singular simple present haunches, present participle haunching, simple past and past participle haunched)

1. (transitive, architecture) To provide with a haunch or supporting structure.
2. (transitive, dialect) To throw with an underhand movement.