raw

Etymology

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.

adj

1. (cooking) (of food) Not cooked.
   There's nothing but raw eggs for breakfast.
2. (of materials, products, etc.) Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.
   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. 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, page 63
   raw cane sugar
   raw sewage
3. Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
   ‘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. […]’ 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess
   a raw wound
4. New or inexperienced.
   a raw beginner
5. Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
   a raw voice
6. (statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis.
   What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society. 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010
7. (of weather) Unpleasantly cold or damp.
   a raw wind
8. (of an emotion, personality, etc.) Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed.
   raw emotion
9. Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
   a raw description of the American political arena
10. (of language) Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters.
11. (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.

adv

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

noun

1. (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
   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. 1800, Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, volume 22, page 287
   Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration. 1921, “The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry”, in American Chemical Society, Volume 13, Part 1, page 149
   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. 1939, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Volume 148, Part 2, page 2924
2. A galled place; an inveterate sore.
3. (by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
   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. 1934, Harold Heslop, Goaf, page 29
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.

verb

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