raw

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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.

Pronunciation[edit]

Rhymes: -ɔː

Adjective[edit]

Raw (uncooked) sausages

raw (comparative rawer, superlative rawest)

  1. (cooking) (of food) Not cooked. [from 9th c.]
    There's nothing but raw fish in the freezer.
    1. Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
      I was 100% raw from 2014 until early 2018.
  2. Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. [from 10th c.] (of materials, products, etc.)
    • 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments‎[1], Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:
      Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.
    raw cane sugar
    raw sewage
  3. Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated. [from 14th c.]
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’
    a raw wound
  4. New or inexperienced. [from 16th c.]
    a raw beginner
  5. Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated. [from 16th c.]
    a raw voice
  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. Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
    a raw wind
  8. Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
    raw emotion
  9. Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
    a raw description of the American political arena
  10. Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
  11. (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.

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Translations[edit]

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Adverb[edit]

raw

  1. (slang, sex) Without a condom.
    We did it raw.

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Noun[edit]

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, “The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry”, in American Chemical Society, 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, figurative) 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.

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Verb[edit]

raw (third-person singular simple present raws, present participle rawing, simple past and past participle rawed)

  1. (slang) To anally or vaginally penetrate without a condom.

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Anguthimri[edit]

Adjective[edit]

raw

  1. (Mpakwithi) black

References[edit]

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

Maltese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

raw

  1. third-person plural perfect of ra

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old English hrēaw.

Noun[edit]

raw

  1. Alternative form of rawe (“raw”)

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old English rǣw, rāw.

Noun[edit]

raw

  1. Alternative form of rewe (“row”)

Tagalog[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Particle[edit]

raw (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜏ᜔)

  1. Alternative form of daw
    Masaya raw siya.
    They say he is happy.

Usage notes[edit]

  • When the preceding word does not end with a vowel, ⟨w⟩, or ⟨y⟩, daw is used instead.

Welsh[edit]

Noun[edit]

raw

  1. Soft mutation of rhaw.

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
rhaw raw unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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