randy

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Pronunciation
/ˈɹændi/

Definition of randy

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (British, informal)Sexually aroused; full of sexual lust.
    “If you're feeling randy, give me a call and I'll come round and give you some hot lovin'.”
    “Of course, the Greeks were quite the randy bunch themselves. “Anything goes!” was their motto and they lived up to it. It’s amazing that Plato, Aristotle and Socrates got any philosophizing done at all, what with all the lewd and lascivious behavior going on.”
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adj

  1. (British, informal)Sexually aroused; full of sexual lust.
    “If you're feeling randy, give me a call and I'll come round and give you some hot lovin'.”
    “Of course, the Greeks were quite the randy bunch themselves. “Anything goes!” was their motto and they lived up to it. It’s amazing that Plato, Aristotle and Socrates got any philosophizing done at all, what with all the lewd and lascivious behavior going on.”
  2. (Scotland)Rude or coarse in manner.

noun

  1. (obsolete)An impudent beggar.
  2. (obsolete)A boisterous, coarse, loose woman.
  3. (obsolete)A virago.
  4. (obsolete, slang)A random.
  5. (obsolete)A Two-and-a-half-twist acrobatic maneuver.

name

  1. A diminutive of the male given names Randall or Randolph, used as a male given name in the US.
    ““I like to put it simply,” says Randy “R Dub!” Williams, a late-night “slow jams” DJ from San Diego who’s also known as “the Sultan of Slowjamastan.” “I ran out of countries, so I created my own.””
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Miranda.
    “My stepmother, Miranda, known appropriately as Randy, sniffed a couple of times.”

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Etymology

First use appears c. 1665 in a letter by the Earl of Argyll. From Scottish randy (“boisterous, aggressive”), of uncertain origin. Probably from rand (“to storm, rave”, verb), a variant…

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First use appears c. 1665 in a letter by the Earl of Argyll. From Scottish randy (“boisterous, aggressive”), of uncertain origin. Probably from rand (“to storm, rave”, verb), a variant of rant, see rant; or from rand (“edge”, noun), in the sense of "edgy, on edge", from Middle English rand (“edge, brink, margin, border”), from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim”). Related to randan.

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