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Earthy vs Risque - What's the difference?

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Earthy is a related term of risque.


As adjectives the difference between earthy and risque

is that earthy is resembling dirt or soil (ie earth) while risque is (us).

earthy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
  • The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.
  • Down to earth, un-artificed, natural.
  • She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.
  • Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
  • Covered with earth (mud, dirt).
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron.

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    risque

    English

    Alternative forms

    * risque (US)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Suggestive of sexual impropriety; bordering on the indelicate.
  • Synonyms

    * near the knuckle (UK)

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