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▪ I. randy, a. and n.1 orig. dial. and Sc.|ˈrændɪ|
Also 7–9 randie.
[Perh. f. rand v. + -y: but the original sense of the word is not quite clear.]
A. adj.
1. Sc. Having a rude, aggressive manner; loud-tongued and coarse-spoken.
In early use always of beggars, and probably implying vagrant habits as well as rude behaviour. Now applied only to women.
1698Culross Kirk Session Minutes 18 Sept., Seven pounds Scots..distributed to the randie beggars. 1723W. Meston Poems, Knight (1767) 6 A rambling, randy errant Knight. 1785Burns Jolly Beggars 1st Recit., A merry core O' randie, gangrel bodies. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxvii, It was him and his randie mother began a' the mischief in this house. 1894Crockett Raiders (ed. 3) 42 Hearing what the pair of old randy wives had to say to me.
2. a. dial. Boisterous, riotous, disorderly, dissipated; wild, unruly, unmanageable.
1787in Grose Prov. Gloss. 1874Sir J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth Ribblesdale I. 21 Mind you long-horned cattle..they are apt to be randy. 1876–in dial. glossaries (Yks., Linc., Chesh., Shropsh., etc.). 1884Punch 8 Mar. 118/1 That young bay you'll find a little randy, With rather more of ‘devil’ than comes handy.
b. Wanton, lustful, lewd. orig. dial.
1847in Halliwell. 1881–in dial. glossaries (Yks., Leic., Warw., etc.). c1888–94My Secret Life III. 280 She'll be randy directly her belly is filled. 1922[see pussy n. 6]. 1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath vi. 69 Fust time I ever laid with a girl..snortin' like a buck deer, randy as a billygoat. 1957W. Camp Prospects of Love ii. v. 62 Suffers from too much sex, if anything—he's a randy old man. 1965F. Sargeson Mem. Peon iv. 87, I was randy myself at your age. But be careful. These native girls can put you right into hospital if you don't take care. 1978K. J. Dover Greek Homosexuality ii. 38 The gangs or clubs of randy and combative young men.
3. Comb., as (sense 2 b) randy-arsed adj.; also with ns. forming attrib. compounds, as randy-dog.
1968Randy-arsed [see length n. 11 c].
1963Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Jan. 37/4 Harold Barlow is an Amis character..with that special randy-dog flavour. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 173 Tom, Geoffrey's analogue of my own Sebastian: sixteen, wealthy in pustules, randy-dog smells, sebum-moist hairline, and other adolescentiana.
B. n.1 Sc. and north. dial.
a. A sturdy rude-mannered beggar; a thorough vagrant.
1788Burns Louis, what reck ii, Reif randies, I disown ye! 1792Statist. Acc. Scotl. II. 515 Many Randies (sturdy vagrants) infest this country. 1811Willan W. Riding Gloss. (E.D.S.), Randies, itinerant beggars and ballad-singers. 1884Gd. Words 161 She's a regular randy, nigh as bad as a gipsy. She's never in the house.
b. A loud-tongued, coarse-mannered woman; a scold, virago, termagant.
1816Scott Old Mort. viii, The daft speeches of an auld jaud..a daft auld whig randy. 1850Carlyle Let. to Wife 19 Aug. in Froude Life in London (1884) II. xviii. 52 Do not let that scandalous randy of a girl disturb you. 1878–in dial. glossaries (Cumbld., Northumb., Antrim).
Comb.1822Galt Steam-boat ix. 179 A randy-like woman.
Hence randy v.3 trans., to render (a person) lascivious (nonce-use); ˈrandiness, the quality or condition of being randy (sense 2 b); lustfulness.
1911Conc. Oxf. Dict., Randiness. 1953W. Cooper Ever-Interesting Topic 145 Attending Dr Foy's series of lectures on sex was inducing in the boys a distinctly higher-than-usual state of—there is no other word for it—randiness. 1967A. Wilson No Laughing Matter iii. 305 This bloody randiness always threatened to suck him down into the vast, empty emotional gulf of Ted's shapeless life. 1976W. Greatorex Crossover 103 He didn't like randy old sods. He thought randiness should be forbidden after the age of, say, forty.
1961A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo v. 278 You've randied him into the looney bin now..the highest-minded little whore that ever almost gave herself out of charity.
▪ II. ˈrandy, n.2 dial.
[cf. randy v.2]
A noisy merry-making or revel. Also randy-go and on the (or a) randy, ‘on the spree’.
Perh. abbrev. of rendezvous, used in various dialects (in forms randivoo, -bew, -bow, -voose, etc.) in a similar sense. But cf. randy a. 2.
1825in Jennings Dial. West Eng. 1856Thompson Hist. Boston Gloss. s.v., ‘He was at the randy’. Rendezvous. 1877E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincolnshire 202/1 Bill's on the randy to-day. 1881C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley iv. 159 He was trained on by the music, and got into that there randy go up in the park. 1891T. Hardy Tess (1900) 78/2 A rattling good randy wi' fiddles and bass-viols complete. 1934L. MacNeice Poems (1935) 18 Over the randy of the theatre and cinema I hear songs. 1940Dylan Thomas Portrait of Artist as Young Dog 67 ‘Hush! hush! your mother'll be waiting. You must come home.’ ‘No she won't. She's gone on a randy with Mr Robert.’
▪ III. † ˈrandy, v.1 Obs. rare.
[Cf. rand v.2]
intr. To canvass. Hence ˈrandying vbl. n.
a1720T. Gordon Cordial Low Spirits 57 Who advised him, as soon as ever he came to the randying ground, to bray with all his might. 1733Fielding Don Quix. in Eng. ii. iii, He was here..randying for a knight of his acquaintance, with no less than six hundred freeholders at his heels.
▪ IV. ˈrandy, v.2 dial.
[cf. randy n.2]
intr. To be ‘on the spree’.
1832Boston Herald 4 Dec. 4/3 A number of labouring bankers were ‘randying’ at the Woolpack inn. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. III. iv. 62, I fetch him hoome fra' that big hoose yonder, after he's been randyin' ower long.
▪ V. randy, v.3
see randy a. and n.1 |