Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lascivious; lecherous.
- adj. Of or characterized by frank, uninhibited sexuality.
- adj. Scots Ill-mannered.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- 1690, from Scottish randy ("boisterous, aggressive"), of uncertain origin. Probably from rand ("to storm, rave", v), 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. (Wiktionary)
- Possibly from obsolete rand, to rant, from obsolete Dutch randen, ranten. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Dave's what you call the randy milkman who's giving your missus extra deliveries when you're out at work.”
“Fred ♪ ♫ ♪ says: randy is too big of a man to apologize.”
“January 27th, 2010 at 4: 39 pm just the bleepn facts says: randy is “for the people” except when the people disagree with her. at which point the “majority” of americans are referred to as ‘fringe’!”
“March 23rd, 2010 at 10: 40 am tombaker says: randy is flexing his pecs in the mirror.”
“Yeah, randy is like most of the trolls, not too bright, but he tries to make up for it in misplaced attitude and overinflated ego.”
“When I was living in Scotland back in 1921, I introduced the word randy to the Scottish folk.”
“February 11th, 2010 at 1: 29 pm ralph the wonder llama, official spokesllama for the Llama Milk Council® says: my point, randy, is that you’re not very bright if your image of responsible government is for the minority party to have nothing to do with legislation.”
“It appears as though our slow-witted friend randy is so leery of actually discussing the topic of Republican abuse of filibusters that he’s willing to float easily-discredited misperceptions of the Great Depression as a diversion.”
“Looks like there is something free in randy’s world.”
Think Progress » Passing Health Reform Would Contribute To Obama’s Deficit Reduction Goals
“Virtual Pebble (An Affiliated NUMEC-Apollo Corp Entity) says: randy is one of those idiot conservatives that looks a warped snapshot that’s had a coffee cup dribble on it, and maybe a couple of singed spots from a smoke that got dropped on it and thinks that all the damage is part of the original.”
Think Progress » Passing Health Reform Would Contribute To Obama’s Deficit Reduction Goals
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for randy.
malbeth A common name in the states, either on its own or used as a shorter form of Randall. Prior to the Mike Myers movies, few Americans were aware of the word's slang meaning across the pond. Dec 25, 2006
seanahan Austin Powers uses this word to hilarious effect. Dec 6, 2006