oatsy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

oats +‎ -y, from feeling one's oats.

Adjective[edit]

oatsy (comparative more oatsy, superlative most oatsy)

  1. Energetic; frisky.
    • 1975, Jean Scott MacKellar, ‎Menachem Amir, Rape: The Bait and the Trap (page 13)
      Between the two are several millenia [sic] of legends, jokes, and gossip designed to keep the male feeling oatsy and master in the game of sex.

References[edit]

  • Tony Thorne (2014) “oatsy”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury
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