risqué
ris·qué
gewagt, schlüpfrig
Slightly sexually suggestiveSlightly sexually suggestive; bordering on indelicate.
UK/ˈɹɪskeɪ/US/ɹəˈskeɪ/
Meaning
1 sensesSlightly sexually suggestive; bordering on indelicate.
gewagt, schlüpfrig
Translations
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By meaning 1
slightly sexually suggestive:
Origin
Borrowed from French risqué (“risky”), an adjective use of the past participle of risquerBorrowed 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”)).
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