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raw

English

Etymology

From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hr?aw (raw, uncooked), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hr?waz (raw), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh?- (raw meat, fresh blood). Cognate with Scots raw (raw), Dutch rauw (raw), German roh (raw), Swedish (raw), Icelandic hrár (raw), Latin cr?dus (raw, bloody, uncooked), Irish cró (blood), Lithuanian kraujas (blood), Russian ????? (krov?, blood). Related also to Old English hr?ow, hr?oh (rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous). More at ree.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: , IPA(key): /???/
Rhymes: -??
  • (US) enPR: , IPA(key): /??/
  • (cotcaught merger) enPR: r?, IPA(key): /??/
  • (cotcaught merger, father-bother merger) enPR: , IPA(key): /??/
  • Homophones: roar (in non-rhotic accents), rah (with cot-caught merger and father-bother merger)

Adjective

raw (comparative rawer, superlative rawest)

  1. (cooking) (of food) Not cooked. [from 9th c.]
  2. (of materials, products, etc.) Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. [from 10th c.]
  3. Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. [from 14th c.]
  4. New or inexperienced. [from 16th c.]
  5. Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated. [from 16th c.]
  6. (statistics) (of data) Uncorrected, without analysis. [from 20th c.]
    • 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:
      What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.
  7. (of weather) Unpleasantly cold or damp.
  8. (of an emotion, personality, etc.) Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed
  9. Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
  10. (of language) Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters
  11. (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:raw

Derived terms

  • rawly
  • rawness
  • raw sugar

Translations

Adverb

raw

  1. (slang) Without a condom.

Synonyms

  • (without a condom): Thesaurus:condomless

Translations

Noun

raw (plural raws)

  1. (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
    • 1800, Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, Volume 22, page 287,
      With the recent advance in London yellow crystals, however, the disproportion of the relative value of these two kinds has been considerably reduced, and a better demand for crystallized raws should consequently occur.
    • 1921, American Chemical Society, The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Volume 13, Part 1, page 149,
      Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.
    • 1939, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Volume 148, Part 2, page 2924,
      The world sugar contract closed 1 to 3 points net higher, with sales of only 36 lots. London raws sold at 8s. 4½d., and futures there were unchanged to 3d. higher.
  2. A galled place; an inveterate sore.
  3. (by extension, figuratively) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
    • 1934, Harold Heslop, Goaf (page 29)
      In a moment Tom was angry. The women saw that Bill had touched him upon the raw, and they went out of the room to prepare a meal.
  4. (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
  5. (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.

Translations

Anagrams

  • RWA, Rwa, WAR, WRA, War, War., war, war-

Anguthimri

Adjective

raw

  1. (Mpakwithi) black

References

  • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hr?aw.

Noun

raw

  1. Alternative form of rawe (raw)

Etymology 2

From Old English r?w, r?w.

Noun

raw

  1. Alternative form of rewe (row)

Welsh

Noun

raw

  1. Soft mutation of rhaw.

Mutation

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unfledged

English

Etymology

un- +? fledged

Adjective

unfledged (not comparable)

  1. Not having feathers; (of a bird) not yet having developed its wings and feathers and become able to fly.
    Synonym: callow
    Antonym: fledged
    • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Scene 3[1]
      [] we, poor unfledged,
      Have never wing’d from view o’ the nest, nor know not
      What air’s from home.
    • 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 21,[2]
      “The little Durands were there, I conclude,” said she, “with their mouths open to catch the music, like unfledged sparrows ready to be fed. They never miss a concert.”
    • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, “The Bean-Field,”[3]
      The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.
    • 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part 2, Chapter 28,[4]
      “Boy and girl. Aren’t they beauties?” said the proud papa, beaming upon the little red squirmers as if they were unfledged angels.
  2. (figuratively) Not yet fully grown or developed; not yet mature.
    • c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act I, Scene 2,[5]
      Temptations have since then been born to’s; for
      In those unfledged days was my wife a girl;
      Your precious self had then not cross’d the eyes
      Of my young play-fellow.
    • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Section 5.5,[6]
      Besides, it is not possible to give a young person a just view of life; he must have struggled with his own passions before he can estimate the force of the temptation which betrayed his brother into vice. Those who are entering life, and those who are departing, see the world from such very different points of view, that they can seldom think alike, unless the unfledged reason of the former never attempted a solitary flight.
    • 1848, James Russell Lowell, “Si Descendero in Infernum, Ades” in Poems. Second Series, Cambridge: G. Nichols, p. 38,[7]
      Yet they who watch your God-compelled return
      May see your happy perihelion burn
      Where the calm sun his unfledged planets broods.
    • 1946, Olaf Stapledon, Death into Life, Chapter 4,[8]
      Fantasy, sheer fantasy? Perhaps! But when we think of time and of eternity, intelligence reels. The shrewdest questions that we can ask about them are perhaps falsely shaped, being but flutterings of the still unfledged human mentality.
  3. (figuratively) Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.
    Antonym: experienced
    • 1898, Gertrude Atherton, The Californians, Book I, Chapter 23,[9]
      He had long since determined that Magdaléna should marry no one of the sons of his moneyed friends, nor yet any of the sprouting lawyers or unfledged business youths who made up the masculine half of the younger fashionable set.
    • 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island, Chapter 37,[10]
      Aunt Jamesina had a proper respect for the cloth even in the case of an unfledged parson.

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