raw

Meanings

Adjective

• Not cooked.
• Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.
• Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
• New or inexperienced.
• Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
• Uncorrected, without analysis.
• Unpleasantly cold or damp.
• Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed
• Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
• Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters
• Not covered; bare; bald.

Adverb

• Without a condom.

Noun

• An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
• A galled place; an inveterate sore.
• A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
• A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
• A scan that has not been cleaned and has not been scanlated.

Verb

• To anally or vaginally penetrate without a condom.

Origin

• From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw ("raw, uncooked"), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz, 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 ("blood"). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh. More at ree.