risqué

adj
/ˈɹɪskeɪ/UK/ɹəˈskeɪ/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French risqué (“risky”), an adjective use of the past participle of risquer (“to put at risk; to risk”), from risque (“risk”, noun) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). Risque is derived from Old Italian risco (“risk”) (modern Italian rischio), possibly a deverbal from resecare or from Vulgar Latin *resecum, both from Latin resecō (“to cut loose or off, etc.”), from re- (intensifying prefix) + secō (“to cut; to cut off”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut; to cut off, sever”)).

  1. derived from *sek-✻ — “to cut; to cut off, sever”
  2. derived from resecō — “to cut loose or off, etc.”
  3. derived from *resecum✻
  4. derived from risco — “risk”
  5. borrowed from risqué — “risky”

Definitions

  1. Slightly sexually suggestive

    Slightly sexually suggestive; bordering on indelicate.

    • Never blame society,—it buys books! Now if you could write a smart love-story, slightly risqué,—even a little more than risqué for that matter; that is the sort of thing that suits the present age.

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No curated loop yet for risqué. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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