randy

See also: Randy

English

Alternative forms

• randie, ranty

Etymology

1690, 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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English rand (“edge, brink, margin, border”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim”). Related to randan.

Pronunciation

• enPR: răn'di, IPA^(key): /ˈɹændi/
• Rhymes: -ændi

Adjective

randy (comparative randier, superlative randiest)

1. Sexually aroused; full of sexual lust.
2. (chiefly Scotland) Rude or coarse in manner.

Synonyms

• (sexually aroused): horny, toey; see also Thesaurus:randy
• coarse, rude

Derived terms

• randiness

Translations

sexually aroused

• Dutch: geil, (seksueel) opgewonden/ verhit, heet(staand)
• French: excité (fr)
• German: (sexuell) erregt, geil (de)
• Hungarian: kanos (hu), begerjedt, felizgult
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: graður m, lostafullur m, lostafenginn m
• Portuguese: excitado (pt), com tesão
• Spanish: cachondo, caliente (es)
• Tagalog: nangangandi

rude or coarse

• Dutch: grof (nl), rauw (nl)
• German: grob (de), gemein (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: grófur m, ruddalegur (is) m, dónalegur (is) m, illa siðaður m

Noun

randy (plural randies)

1. impudent beggar
2. boisterous, coarse, loose woman
3. virago
4. (video games) random

1. (sports, aerial freestyle skiing) one and a half twist acrobatic maneuver

Translations

impudent beggar

• Dutch: geus (nl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

virago

• Dutch: manwijf (nl) n, virago
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• (freestyle aerial skiing): rudy, daffy, full, double-full, triple-full, lay, back, hurricane
• (video games): random, noob, bad kid

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• -andry, Andry