randy
adjectivenounnounnouncommon in dialogue
- //ˈɹændi//
Sexually aroused; full of sexual lust.
adjective
- 1
informalSexually 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
Rude or coarse in manner.
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 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.
noun
- 1
obsoleteAn impudent beggar.
- 2
obsoleteA boisterous, coarse, loose woman.
- 3
obsoleteA virago.
noun
- 1
obsoleteA random.
Etymology
Clipping of random + -y.
noun
- 1
obsoleteA Two-and-a-half-twist acrobatic maneuver.
Forms
- plural
- randies
- comparative
- randier
- superlative
- randiest
randy · Sexually aroused; full of sexual lust.
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