Racy

Definitions: Racy

Racy

Adjective

1. Full of zest or vigor; "a racy literary style".

2. Suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "racy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Note: Racy \Ra"cy\, adjective. [Comparative Racier; superlative Raciest.]. (Websters 1913)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Racy

Feeling

Warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic.

Physical Energy

Rousing, irritation; poignant; virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant, harsh, stringent; double-edged, double-shotted, double-distilled; drastic, escharotic; racy; (pungent).

Pungency

Adjective: pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high-seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant; spicy; seasoned. Verb: hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating, escharotic, meracious; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough. (sour); unsavory .

Saltiness

Salty, racy (indecent).

Vigor

Spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent, piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious.

Crosswords: Racy

You know, there's some pretty racy stuff on here. (The Faculty; writing credit: Richard Carpenter)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Racy Affair (Harlequin Presents 1026) (reference)

• Cooking in the Nude, Quickies Racy Recipes, in Under an Hour, for Lovers on the Go (reference)

• Hilarious without being racy : light reading for the nostalgic : a collection of clean jokes, stories, and anecdotes (reference)

• Longarm and the Racy Ladies (Longram , No 214) (reference)

• Sex: Even More Fun You Can Have Without Laughing: Sex Quotations Witty, Racy & Surprisingly Instructive (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Of the Racy Brothers (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "racy": racy flavor ♦ racy flavour ♦ racy indecent ♦ racy of the soil. Additional references.

Beginning with "racy": racy-looking.

Albanian

pikant (flavored, flavoured, juicy, piquant, poignant, Savory, savoury, spicy), origjinal (original, originality, patent, pristine, quaint, uncoined, unconventional, unfeigned, unhackneyed), me aromë të shijshme, i veçantë (characteristic, detached, discrete, distinct, distinctive, especial, exceptional, exclusive, extra, extra special, individual, odd, of one's own, off, particular, particularized, peculiar, pet, queer, rare, separate, single, sole, special, specific, uncommon), i fuqishëm (able bodied, forcible, full-blooded, green, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, husky, lusty, marrowy, mighty, orotund, potent, potential, powerful, red blooded, robust, sound, spanking, stalwart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, violent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفعم بالحياة (dashing, lively, living, spirited), ‏زكي الرائحة (luscious), ‏طيب النكهة (savory, savoury). (various references)

Bulgarian 

характерен (distinctive, idiosyncratic, proper, representative, specific), цветист (colorful, colourful, exuberant, flamboyant, flaming, flowery, luxuriant, opulent, purple, rotund), типичен (classic, exemplary, normal, quintessential, representative, true to type, typical), колоритен (colorful, colourful), отличителен (differential, discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory, distinctive, outstanding), оживен (active, alive, animate, animated, brisk, bustling, crisp, effervescent, heated, hilarious, lively, roaring, rousing, rush, spirited, sprightly, stirring, thriving, vivacious), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), пикантен (gamy, gingery, juicy, piquant, poignant, pungent, rich, salacious, salt, salty, savoury, spicy, tasty, zesty). (various references)

Czech

svérázný (idiosyncratic, odd), pikantní (fruity, naughty, piquant, Savory, spicy, tasty), duchaplný (brainy, ingenious, spirited, witty), řízný (crisp), živý (active, airy, alive, animated, bright, brisk, chirpy, clear, exhilarating, gay, heated, high-spirited, lifelike, live, lively, living, mercurial, perky, pleasant, quick, sprightly, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Farsi 

مهیج (Dramatic, Sensational, Stimulant, Unco), تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), جلف (Gaudy, Jackanapes, Jaunty, Rank, Sporty, Tawdry), دارای طعم اصلی , دارای صفات اصلی ونژادی , بامزه (Zestful(Ty)), بانشاط (Fresh, Sprightly, Unwearied, Vivacious), باروح (Airy, Allegro, Animate, Brisk, Fresh, Gaily, Lively, Peppery, Snappy, Spunky). (various references)

French

risqué, qui a du caractère, plein de verve, piquant (raciness), osé. (various references)

German

schmissig (dashing, saucy, snappy, spirited), rassig (fiery, hot-blooded, lively, sharp, sleek, spirited, striking, vivacious). (various references)

Greek 

ιδιόχυμοσ, νόστιμοσ (comely, dainty, nice, palatable, pretty, relishable, savorous, savoury, toothsome, zest), πικάντικοσ (piquant, pungent), ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), άσεμνοσ (immodest, immoral, indecent, indecorous, obscene, unchaste). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלא חיים (graphic, live, lively, snappy, sprightly, spry, vibrant). (various references)

Hungarian

zamatos (fruity, juicy, luscious, relishable, Savory, savoury, spicy, succulent), pikáns (juicy, piquant, salt, savory, savoury, spicy), ízes (luscious, relishable, sapid, savoury, snappy, spicy, tasty, toothsome). (various references)

Italian

vivo (alive, bright, deep, lifelike, live, lively, living, living person, quick, raw, sharp, soul), vivace (alive, animated, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, colorful, colourful, dashing, frisky, gay, jaunty, lively, perky, quick, skittish, spirited, sprightly, spry, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid), spinto (driven, forward, pushed, risque), salace (salacious), pungente (acrid, biting, bitter, cutting, nipping, nippy, piercing, poignant, pointed, prickly, pungent, scathing, sharp, stinging), pieno di vita, piccante (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, hot, lurid, nutty, piquant, salty, sharp, spicy), originale (copy, eccentric, master, new, odd, original, originally, queer, real, refreshing, rummy, strange), naturale (careless, inbred, lifelike, native, natural), genuino - salace - di sapore caratteristico, genuino (authentic, genuine, honest, natural, true, unadulterated, veritable, wholesome), frizzante (crisp, fizzy), forte (aloud, big, brawny, deep, Doughty, fast, fastness, forceful, Fort, forte, hard, hardly, heavy, hefty, high, hot, keen, living, loud, loudly, mighty, nervous, nervy, potent, puissant, robust, rugged, severe, short, shrewd, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, vigorous), brioso (lively, merry, spirited), animato (animate, animated, brisk, heated, lively, living). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ぴよぴよ鳴く (becoming tense, biting, burning the tongue, hot, pungent, smart, sting, tingle, to cheep, to peep). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぴりっとくる (biting, hot, pungent). (various references)

Manx

cheeroil (agrarian, countrified, countrylike, homely). (various references)

Pig Latin

acyray.(various references)

Portuguese

rico (abundant, affluent, costly, crummy, flush, livery stable, money-grubbing, opulent, plentiful, plumose, plump, podded, pregnant, resourceful, rich, saturated, substantial, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well to do, well-off), vivo (above ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, Cork, Corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervently, frit, gauffer, gay, graphic card, graphically, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, lummox, lute, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimbleness, Nirvana, parlance, perm, pertain, piddle, piping, poignantly, quick, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), vigoroso (active, alive, bold, bouncing, energetic, flush, Hale, hard cover book, healthful, healthy, hegemony, lively, lusty, nervous breakdown, nervy, peppy, pitiable, red blooded, robust, sinewy, smart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, Venturous, vigorous, virile, vital, vivid, wakeless, youthful, zippy), picante (acerbic, acrid, biting, home affairs, hot, jujitsu, mordacious, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, risque, rough, salty, Savory, savoury, sharp, spicy, stinging, tart), forte (accomplished, acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, Fort, forte, fortress, full blown, Hale, hard, heavy, hefty, high, high-hearted, intense, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, man-made fibers, masculine, masterful, mighty, narcissism, penetrating, pithy, potent, presidio, red blooded, robust, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, swingeing, telling, tough, two-fisted, unfailing, vehement, Venturous, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), de raça pura (full-blooded, pediment, thoroughbred, true-bred), agradável (agreeable, amiable, comely, congenial, cushy, delectable, delightful, easy, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, genial, Gladstone, glory, good humoured, good natured, good-humored, goodly, gracious, grate, gratefully, Hale, hopeful, kindly, lovely, merry, music box, musical comedy, neat, nice, nutty, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, restful, she is pretty, snug, sober-blooded, soft, songful, stunner, suave, taking, welcome, well done, well-natured). (various references)

Romanian

vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), savuros (chaming, luscious, pleasant, relishing, sapid, Savory, savoury, tasty), plin de spirit, picant (attractive, fruity, hot, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, salt, Savory, savoury, snappy, spicy), indecent (blue, dirty, free and easy, gross, hoggish, immodestly, improper, indecent, lewd, naughty, unprintable, unseemly), cu miros şi gust caracteristic. (various references)

Russian 

колоритный (colorful, colourful, juicy, picturesque). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oštar (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, argute, austere, biting, brisk, brusque, cutting, keen, piercing, scathing, sharp, sharp cut, strident, strong, trenchant, twang), nepristojan (bawdry, bawdy, improper, indecent, lewd, rude, scabrous, spicy, unbecoming, vulgar), mastan (fat, fatty, greasy, oleaginous, rich, risque, scabrous, sebaceous, unctuous), ljut (angry, bitter, cross, grim, hot, huffish, mad, peppery, pissed, severe), jak (beefy, bruiser, great, grunting ox, humming, intense, lusty, powerful, red blooded, sinewy, spanking, stiff, strong, tenacious, yak), žestok (bitter, blistering, boisterous, intense, mettled, mettlesome, right-down, rough and tumble, severe, uncanny, vehement, vicious, violent, white hot). (various references)

Spanish

vivo como la vida (glowing, mercurial, on the hoof), salado (briny, dry salting, saline, salt, salted, salting, salting with dry salt, salty, Savory, savoury), picante (biting, gamy, hot, itchy, juicy, naughty, nutty, peppery, piquancy, piquant, pointed, pungency, pungent, raciness, salty, sharp, spice, spicy). (various references)

Swedish

saftig (fruity, juicy, lush, sappy, spicy, succulent), livlig (adroit, agile, alert, animate, animated, brisk, bubbly, buckish, high pitched, intense, keen, kittenish, lively, mercurial, mettlesome, nimble, pert, rousing, snappy, vital, vivacious, volatile), karakteristisk (characteristic, distinguishing, peculiar, typical). (various references)

Turkish

müstehcen (bawdy, blue, dirty, filthy, gross, hard core, kinky, loathsome, nasty, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, raw, ribald, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, shocking, smutty, suggestive, unprintable), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), baharatlı (seasoned, spiced, spicy), ateşli (aglow, ardent, armed, burning, eager, enthusiastic, febrile, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a glow, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, skittish, sulphurous, sultry, torrid, vehement, zealous), aromatik (aromatic), açık saçık (bawdy, blue, dirty, disorderly, feelthy, filthy, foul, girlie, hard core, immodest, immodestly dressed, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, raw, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, salty, scabrous, shocking, smutty, spicy), özlü (brief, capsule, compact, concise, juicy, laconic, lapidary, loamy, lush, meaty, pithy, pulpy, sappy, sententious, starchy, substantial, succinct, succulent, terse), özel bir tadı olan. (various references)

Ukranian 

свіжий (breezy, brisk, caller, clean, crisp, fresh, green, new, new-laid, original, sweet), характерний (characteristic, definitive, differential, distinctive, individual, representative), міцний (abiding, able bodied, bastard, beefy, buirdly, deep, endurable, enduring, entrenched, fast, firm, full-bodied, lasting, lusty, oaky, sledge hammer, stable, stalwart, staunch, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, tenacious, tough, wakeless, well knit), запашний (aromatic, balmy, nectareous, odorant, odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, sweet), пряний (keen, nutty, spiced, spicy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sâu sắc (abstruse, deep, insightful, intimately, vivid), sốt sắng (devout, obliging, zealous), hấp dẫn hăng hái, đặc biệt (distinguished, especial, exceptional, extra, individual, particular, particularly, ripping, scrumptious, special, specially, topping), đắc sắc sinh động. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "racy": accuracy, aliteracy, antipiracy, aristocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, confederacy, conspiracy, counterconspiracy, curacy, degeneracy, democracy, federacy, gerontocracy, gynecocracy, illiteracy, immoderacy, inaccuracy, innumeracy, inveteracy, isocracy, literacy, magistracy, meritocracy, mobocracy, monocracy, numeracy, obduracy, ochlocracy, pantisocracy, piracy, plantocracy, plutocracy, regeneracy, slavocracy, stratocracy, subliteracy, technocracy, thalassocracy, theocracy, timocracy. (additional references)

Words containing "racy": chlortetracycline, chlortetracyclines, oxytetracycline, oxytetracyclines, tetracycline, tetracyclines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Racy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acy, Aracy, bacy, cacy, cracy, dacy, draci, eacy, facy, Gacy, jacy, nacy, pacy, raby, rac, racey, racit, Radc, rady, rafy, ragy, rak, rakey, rakic, rakie, Rakim, raku, raky, raly, ramy, rany, rary, rashi, rashy, Rassy, rasy, raty, ravy, rawy, Rayca, rca, Rcyc, reaky, rec, recb, recc, reccy, reci, recoy, recry, recy, recyr, rexy, rfac, riac, richy, rici, ricy, rikyu, roacy, Rocyn, Roucy, Rukiya, ruxy, tacy, zacy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arc, car, cay, cry, ray, rya, yar.

-2 letters: ar, ay, ya.

+1 letter: carny, carry, chary, clary, crazy, cymar, farcy, scary.

+2 letters: archly, cairny, calory, canary, carboy, carney, charry, coryza, crabby, cracky, crafty, craggy, cranky, cranny, crappy, crawly, crayon, creaky, creamy, creasy, croaky, curacy, cymars, myrica, piracy, racily, scarey, scarry.

+3 letters: acridly, acronym, acrylic, actuary, anarchy, archery, archway, ardency, barytic, branchy, caloyer, calvary, cannery, canonry, caraway, carboys, carneys, carnify, carroty, carryon, cattery, cautery, cavalry, chantry, charily, charity, charley, charpoy, ciliary, clarify, clarity, clayier, clearly, coryzal, coryzas, crackly, crankly, crassly, crayola, crayons, crazily, crybaby, cryptal, crystal, curably, cyprian, decayer, diarchy, dryadic, dyarchy, eparchy, errancy, exarchy, factory, hayrack, hayrick, hyraces, keycard, lactary, larceny, lyrical, myricas, nectary, peccary, piscary, preachy, prelacy, primacy, privacy, raceway, rackety, raucity, raunchy, recarry, rockaby, satyric, scarify, scarily, scraggy, scrappy, scrawly, scrawny, screaky, sectary, starchy, syncarp, tracery, treacly, truancy, unchary, uncrazy, vicarly, yachter.

+4 letters: accuracy, acerbity, acridity, acrimony, acronyms, acrylate, acrylics, actressy, alacrity, ancestry, apocarpy, apyretic, archways, arythmic, atrocity, autarchy, backyard, baryonic, buckayro, cajolery, calamary, caloyers, calypter, calyptra, cannonry, capybara, caraways, carbamyl, carbaryl, carbonyl, carboxyl, carboyed, carnally, carryall, carrying, carryons, carryout, cartoony, caryatic, caryatid, caryotin, category, catenary, cavitary, centaury, chambray, chancery, charlady, charleys, charpoys, chattery, chivalry, chorally, chronaxy, cinerary, citatory, cityward, clattery, claymore, clayware, coalyard, coarsely, collyria, cometary, condylar, contrary, copyread, coronary, corybant, costmary, cowardly, crabbily, craftily, craggily, cramoisy, crankily, cravenly, crawlway, crayfish, crayolas, crayoned, creakily, creamery, creamily, croakily, crossway, cryostat, crystals, culinary, custardy, cyclecar, cymbaler, cyprians, cytaster, deaconry, decayers, decenary, dockyard, dormancy, dyarchic, enactory, endarchy, falconry, federacy, feracity, fireclay, flackery, garlicky, gramercy, grayback, gynarchy, hatchery, hayracks, hayricks, hexarchy, hydracid, hyracoid, isocracy, jerrycan, keycards, knackery, lacunary, literacy, miscarry, monarchy, mordancy, nomarchy, normalcy, numeracy, obduracy, octarchy, octonary, ocularly, pharmacy, quackery, raceways, racially, radiancy, rampancy, rancidly, rapacity, rascally, rectally, regnancy, repacify, rockabye, rockaway, sacredly, sacristy, scarcely, scarcity, scrabbly, scraggly, scratchy, spagyric, sycamore, syncarps, syncarpy, thearchy, trachyte, trackway, triarchy, triptyca, tyrannic, uranylic, vagrancy, veracity, verdancy, vibrancy, vicenary, voracity, watchcry, xylocarp, yachters.

+5 letters: aberrancy, accessary, accessory, acronymic, acrylates, acyclovir, aliteracy, ancientry, ancillary, apocrypha, archduchy, archenemy, archetype, arcuately, astrocyte, athrocyte, autocracy, bacillary, backyards, baronetcy, bracingly, brickyard, buckayros, cabinetry, calypters, calyptras, candygram, capillary, capybaras, carbamyls, carbaryls, carbonyls, carboxyls, carefully, carnality, carpentry, carpingly, carryalls, carryback, carryouts, carryover, cartulary, caryatids, caryopses, caryopsis, caryotins, cassowary, casuistry, catalyzer, centenary, centrally, certainly, certainty, chambrays, champerty, chandlery, cherimoya, chicanery, chirality, chirimoya, chrysalid, chrysalis, claymores, claywares, clepsydra, clergyman, coalyards, colorably, comradely, comradery, contrasty, copyreads, cordately, cordially, corollary, corybants, corydalis, coryphaei, courtyard, cranberry, cranially, crawlways, crayoning, crayonist, crazyweed, crematory, crossways, crucially, crybabies, cryostats, cryptogam, customary, cyclecars, cyclorama, cymbalers, cystocarp, cytasters, democracy, diachrony, dockyards, dyarchies, dyscrasia, electuary, embracery, eucaryote, execrably, fancywork, fiduciary, fireclays, flagrancy, formicary, fragrancy, gracility, graybacks, graywacke, gyrfalcon, hackberry, heptarchy, hierarchy, hydracids, hydraulic, hyperacid, hyracoids, incurably, inerrancy, insectary, intricacy, irascibly, jerrycans, jocularly, judiciary, lachrymal, lyrically, machinery, macrocyte, marshalcy, mercenary, mobocracy, monocracy, mycoflora, mydriatic, myocardia, necessary, officiary, olfactory, oligarchy, pachyderm, panegyric, paralytic, parcenary, pecuniary, pentarchy, piscatory, placatory, preachify, preachily, precatory, predacity, pregnancy, pyromancy, rackingly, radically, rancidity, rascality, raucously, raunchily, recusancy, relevancy, rockabyes, rockaways, sanctuary, scholarly, scrappily, secondary, secretary, secularly, sergeancy, skyjacker, spagyrics, starchily, stockyard, supremacy, surrogacy, sybaritic, sycamores, sympatric, teacherly, tetrarchy, theocracy, timocracy, tracheary, trachytes, trachytic, trackways, tractably, treachery, triptycas, unclarity, unlyrical, xylocarps, yardstick.

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