randy
randy Lexical Profile
randy Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Sexually aroused or eager for sexual activity (used informally).
"The comedy film relied heavily on double entendres and randy humor to entertain the audience."
Scottish Having a rude, aggressive, or boisterous manner; noisy and disorderly.
"A crowd of randy revelers spilled out of the tavern into the cobbled street."
• noun
Scottish A rude, boisterous, or disorderly person, especially a loud or aggressive woman or beggar.
"In the nineteenth-century ballad, the old randy scolded the townsfolk from the market square."
Word Nuance & Usage
In North America, "Randy" is a common masculine given name (short for Randall or Randolph), which often creates humorous cross-cultural misunderstandings in British English, where the lowercase adjective "randy" is widely used as informal slang for "sexually aroused."
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Word Origin & Etymology
First recorded in the late 17th century in the sense of "boisterous" or "rude," likely derived from the obsolete verb "rand" (meaning to rave or rant, related to Dutch "randen") combined with the suffix "-y".