Clownish vs Raw - What's the difference?

Clownish is a related term of raw.

As an adjective clownish

is pertaining to peasants; rustic.

As an abbreviation raw is

(games) the rules as written: the actual rules appearing in the rulebook, as opposed to house rules, or as opposed to the rules that might have been intended (in the event of a mistake in the rulebook).

clownish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Pertaining to peasants; rustic.

Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:

*:Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke, / And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.

*1815 , (Jane Austen), Emma , :

*:"He is very plain, undoubtedly--remarkably plain:--but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish , so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."

Like a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.

* 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:

Once again, City's defending was clownish . James McArthur drove into the area on the left and pulled a low cross towards the far post, where the horribly timid Gaël Clichy allowed Perch to bundle the ball past Costel Pantilimon.

*2005 , (Laura Barton), The Guardian , 14 May 2005:

*:Indeed, when in close quarters to Rooney, it must prove almost irresistible to stick a plastic moustache and silly clownish shoes on the potato-headed fool.

raw

English

Adjective

(er)

Of food: not cooked.

Not treated or processed (of materials, products etc.); in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.

Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=7 citation , passage=‘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. […]’}}

New or inexperienced.

Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.

Of data, statistics etc: uncorrected, without analysis.

* 2010 , "Under the volcano", (The Economist), 16 Oct 2010:

What makes Mexico worrying is not just the raw numbers but the power of the cartels over society.

Of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold.

a raw wind

* Shakespeare

a raw and gusty day

(obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.

* Spenser

with scull all raw

Synonyms

* See also * (without a condom)

Derived terms

* (l)

Adverb

(head)

(slang) Without a condom.

Noun

(en noun)

(sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.

* 1800 , Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association, Lousiana Sugar Chemists' Association, American Cane Growers' Association, The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer , Volume 22, page 287,

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.

* 1921 , , The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry , Volume 13, Part 1, page 149,

Early in the year the raws were melted to about 20 Brix in order to facilitate filtration.

* 1939 , The Commercial and Financial Chronicle , Volume 148, Part 2, page 2924,

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.

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