raw

Meaning

Adj

1. (of food) Not cooked.
2. (of food) Not cooked.
3. Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
4. Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
5. New or inexperienced.
6. Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
7. Uncorrected, without analysis.
8. Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
9. Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
10. Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
11. Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
12. (slang) Without a condom.
13. (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.

Adv

Without a condom.

Noun

1. An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
2. A galled place; an inveterate sore.
3. (broadly, figuratively) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
4. (slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
5. (slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.

Verb

To sexually penetrate without a condom.

Synonyms

uncooked

unripe

crude

green

fresh

rough

coarse

unrefined

not cooked

rude

tender

bleak

immature

vulgar

naked

young

in the raw

inexperienced

harsh

alive

half-cooked

natural

new

🆕

unwrought

unprocessed

undercooked

uncouth

undressed

bare-ass

in the altogether

bare-assed

sore

peeled

virgin

unworked

in the buff

old

🧓

boorish

blunt

cutting

underdone

cold

🥶

undiluted

chilly

unbridled

unbaked

savage

gross

rice

🍚

sensitive

Translations

cru

crudo

roh

crudo

rauw

brut

cru

cru

ruw

cru

onbewerkt

ωμός

crudus

bot

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɔː/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: rawe

Inherited from Old English: hrēaw

Cognate with Scots: raw

Cognate with Dutch: rauw

Cognate with German: roh

Cognate with Swedish: rå

Cognate with Icelandic: hrár

Cognate with Latin: crūdus

Cognate with Irish: cró

Cognate with Lithuanian: kraujas

Cognate with Russian: кровь

Cognate with Old English: hrēow

In summary

From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).
Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.