racy
stimulating
TRANSLATION
racy = gewagt, pikant, feurig, rassig --- GOOGLE INDEX racy: approximately 19,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Jessica Barton may be best known for her RACY swimsuit photos, but the buxom model is also an avid car enthusiast.
(International Business Times)
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As a rule her conversation was made up of RACY tales about the privacies of the chief families of the town (for she went harvesting among their kitchens every time she came to the village), and Tom enjoyed this.
(Pudd'n Head Wilson, by Mark Twain)
(International Business Times)
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As a rule her conversation was made up of RACY tales about the privacies of the chief families of the town (for she went harvesting among their kitchens every time she came to the village), and Tom enjoyed this.
(Pudd'n Head Wilson, by Mark Twain)
Did you
know?
racy
adjective
- lively, entertaining (usually in a sensual way)
- showing vigour or spirit
- having a characteristic quality in a high degree (wine for example)
- designed or bred to be suitable for racing (automobiles, animals)
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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Etymology: from race, as in the earlier sense of having a characteristic taste, such as wine or fruits.
To paraphrase an old expression, racy is in the eye of the beholder. What might seem rude or inappropriate to one person, could be viewed as simply entertaining to another. Time also plays a factor. Content that was deemed racy a century ago might be considered harmless today.
When DH Lawrence's classic novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was first published in 1928 (privately in Italy), it created a quite a controversy for addressing the subject of adulterous affairs (an upper-crust British woman whose husband is bound to a wheelchair has a steamy affair with the gardener). The book was banned in the UK and the U.S. for several decades. Many people also objected to the language and the book's use of the F-word.
After Britain implemented a new obscenity law in 1959 that made it possible for publishers to escape conviction by proving a book's literary merit, Lady Chatterley's Lover was released by Penguin Books in 1960. This led to a high-profile obscenity trial in Britain that ended in a not-guilty verdict.
In Australia, not only was the book banned, but a book describing the British trial was also censured. A copy was smuggled into the country and then published widely. The fallout from this eventually led to the easing of censorship of books in the country.
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SYNONYMS
entertaining, exhilarating, fiery, forceful, forcible, peppery, piquant, salty, saucy, spicy, spirited, stimulating, tangy, tart, tasty, zesty
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Children are exposed to a lot of racy material on TV."
adjective
- lively, entertaining (usually in a sensual way)
- showing vigour or spirit
- having a characteristic quality in a high degree (wine for example)
- designed or bred to be suitable for racing (automobiles, animals)
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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Etymology: from race, as in the earlier sense of having a characteristic taste, such as wine or fruits.
To paraphrase an old expression, racy is in the eye of the beholder. What might seem rude or inappropriate to one person, could be viewed as simply entertaining to another. Time also plays a factor. Content that was deemed racy a century ago might be considered harmless today.
When DH Lawrence's classic novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was first published in 1928 (privately in Italy), it created a quite a controversy for addressing the subject of adulterous affairs (an upper-crust British woman whose husband is bound to a wheelchair has a steamy affair with the gardener). The book was banned in the UK and the U.S. for several decades. Many people also objected to the language and the book's use of the F-word.
After Britain implemented a new obscenity law in 1959 that made it possible for publishers to escape conviction by proving a book's literary merit, Lady Chatterley's Lover was released by Penguin Books in 1960. This led to a high-profile obscenity trial in Britain that ended in a not-guilty verdict.
In Australia, not only was the book banned, but a book describing the British trial was also censured. A copy was smuggled into the country and then published widely. The fallout from this eventually led to the easing of censorship of books in the country.
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SYNONYMS
entertaining, exhilarating, fiery, forceful, forcible, peppery, piquant, salty, saucy, spicy, spirited, stimulating, tangy, tart, tasty, zesty
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Children are exposed to a lot of racy material on TV."
