risqué

• risque, risquée

Borrowed from French risqué, from risquer (“to risk”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪsˈkeɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

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risqué (comparative more risqué, superlative most risqué)

1. Suggestive of sexual impropriety; bordering on the indelicate.

   Antonym: unrisqué

   • 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 9:

     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.

• Rarely, the feminine form risquée is used to describe a woman instead.

• cheeky, daring, near the knuckle (UK), naughty, racy, rorty (UK), saucy

• “risqué”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• Squier, Squire, quires, squier, squire

• IPA^(key): /ʁis.ke/

risqué (feminine risquée, masculine plural risqués, feminine plural risquées)

1. risky
2. risqué

risqué (feminine risquée, masculine plural risqués, feminine plural risquées)

1. past participle of risquer

• “risqué”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• quiers, requis

From French risquer (“to risk”), compare Haitian Creole risk.

risqué

1. to risk

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales