1. Earthy and sexually explicit
   "a raunchy novel"
    
2. Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
   "raunchy pictures";
   - lewd, obscene, salacious
    
3. [US, informal] Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
   "a miner's raunchy face";
   - begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby [informal], grungy [informal], manky [Brit, informal], scungy [Austral, NZ, informal]

Derived forms: raunchiest, raunchier

See also: dirty, sexy [informal], soiled, unclean

Encyclopedia: Raunchy