different between rustic vs raw

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustique

Etymology

From Latin r?sticus. Doublet of roister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st?k/
• Rhymes: -?st?k

Adjective

rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)

1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
   • 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven

     She had a rustic, woodland air.

   • late 1700s — Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves

     The Princely revel may survey
     Our rustic dance wi' scorn.

   • 1818 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus Ch. I

     With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection.

   • 1820 — Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon

     To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.

2. Unfinished or roughly finished.

3. Crude, rough.

4. Simple; artless; unaffected.
   • 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry

     the manners not too polite nor too rustic

Derived terms

• rustic moth
• rustic work
• rusticity

Translations

Noun

rustic (plural rustics)

1. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
   • 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226

     The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.

   • 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, Ch IX

     The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.

   • 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V, The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai

     Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.

2. A noctuoid moth.
3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.

Translations

Anagrams

• Citrus, Curtis, Turcis, citrus, rictus

Romanian

Etymology

From French rustique, from Latin rusticus.

Adjective

rustic m or n (feminine singular rustic?, masculine plural rustici, feminine and neuter plural rustice)

1. rustic

Declension

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 rå (“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: rô, IPA^(key): /???/

Rhymes: -??

• (US) enPR: rô, IPA^(key): /??/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /??/
• (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger) enPR: rä, 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