_Raunch[ing]_ "drink[ing]"

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1942 Nelson Algren _Never Come Morning_ (rpt. N.Y.: Signet, 1969) 43: Us
> hoods don't do nothin' but shoot dice an' raunch broads.
>
> 1968 _Playboy_ (Aug.) 78: Some of those sexually explicit "adult movies"
> where people go raunching around in theie whole skins.
>

Right. Those et sim. are the meanings that I'm familiar with. Well,
I'm also familiar with "raunchy" and pretty much synonymous with
"funky" in the BE sense of "having foul, unpleasant odor."

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