Meanings
randy1
comparative randier · superlative randiest · alternative randie · alternative ranty
- UKinformalSexually aroused; full of lust.
If you're feeling randy, give me a call and I'll come round and give you some hot lovin'.
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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.
2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 36Synonyms: horny
plural randies · alternative randie · alternative ranty
- obsoleteA boisterous, coarse, loose woman.
- obsoleteA virago.
randy2
randy3
plural randies
- obsoleteaerial freestyleA Two-and-a-half-twist acrobatic maneuver.
Randy4
- A diminutive of the male given names Randall and 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.”
2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN - A diminutive of the female given name Miranda.
My stepmother, Miranda, known appropriately as Randy, sniffed a couple of times.
1992, Nancy Pickard, I.O.U., page 4
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSexually aroused; full of lust.
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Origin
randy · adjective, noun
- Old Englishrand“edge, border, margin, rim”
- Middle Englishrand“edge, brink, margin, border”
- Englishrandy
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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Dutch grof, rauw
- grofrude or coarse
- rauwrude or coarse
- geusimpudent beggar
- manwijfvirago
- viragovirago
German grob, gemein
- grobrude or coarse
- gemeinrude or coarse
Icelandic grófur, ruddalegur
- grófurrude or coarse
- ruddalegurrude or coarse
- dónalegurrude or coarse
- illa siðaðurrude or coarse
Swedish grov, bufflig
- grovrude or coarse
- buffligrude or coarse
Rhymes & wordplay
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randy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/randy
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