randyn.²

Brit.

/ˈrandi/, U.S.

/ˈrændi/

Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: rendezvous n.

Etymology: Probably shortened < rendezvous n. (compare β. forms at that entry, and perhaps compare also rendy n.), although probably also influenced by association with randy adj. (compare randy adj. 2, although the regional distribution does not correspond closely) and perhaps also randan n.¹ Perhaps compare also later randy v.²

English regional. Now chiefly historical.

A noisy merrymaking or revel. Also randy-go.In later use probably influenced by randy adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > [noun] > noisy or riotous

revela1375

riotc1440

revel-rout1587

wassail1603

randan1640

rant1650

high-go1774

splore?a1786

gilravagea1796

spree1804

lark1811

spray1813

shindy1821

randy1825

randy-dandy1835

batter1839

flare-up1844

barney1850

jamboree1868

tear1869

whoop-up1876

beano1888

razzle1892

razzle-dazzle1893

bash1901

1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 62 Randy, a merry-making; riotous living.

1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln Gloss. s.v. ‘He was at the randy’. Rendezvous.

1881 C. 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.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxiii. 163 A rattling good randy wi' fiddles and bass-viols complete.

1934 L. MacNeice Poems (1935) 18 Over the randy of the theatre and cinema I hear songs.

1976 National Times (Austral.) 27 Sept. 17/2 Mr Pennal explained that ‘randy’ was an old Dorset word for a frolic, and part of the frolic was that the young men chased the girls with a tickling pole, and when they caught them they could claim a kiss.

2004 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 13 Dec. 14 At the turn of the year, in 1897, a more than usually festive ‘randy’ got totally out of hand.

Phrases

on the (also a) randy: in a spell of debauched or riotous living; ‘on the spree’.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [adverb] > noisy or riotous

roistingly1571

on (also upon) the randan1652

roisteringly1659

tory-rory1665

on (also upon) the spree1847

on a spree1847

on (or upon) the loose1849

on the fly1851

on the (also a) randy1857

on the tiles1887

1857 T. Wright Dict. Obsolete & Provinc. Eng. (at cited word) On the randy, living in debauchery.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 202/1 Bill's on the randy to-day.

1940 D. 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.’

1978 M. J. Winstanley Life in Kent at Turn of Cent. v. 65 Yes, they were trustworthy till they went on the randy as we used to call it. Bad boys really, you know, but all right with us.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

randyadj.n.¹

Brit.

/ˈrandi/, U.S.

/ˈrændi/, Scottish English

/ˈrandɪ/, Irish English

/ˈrændi/

Forms:

α. 1700s– randy; Scottish pre-1700 1700s– randie, pre-1700 1700s– randy, 1800s raundie, 1900s– randi.

β. Scottish 1700s rawny.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rant v., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: Probably < rant v. (see α. forms at that entry) + -y suffix¹.

A. adj.

1. Scottish. Having a rude, aggressive manner; loud-mouthed and coarsely spoken.In early use always of beggars, and probably implying vagrant habits as well as rude behaviour. Later applied chiefly to women.

ΚΠ

1665 Earl of Argyll Let. in G. Sinclair & C. K. Sharpe Lett. Argyll to Lauderdale (1829) 25 Profane randy beggars.

1682 in D. Robertson S. Leith Rec. (1911) 142 That no randie beggar be recepd by any of this toune.

1697 M. Pix Innocent Mistress ii. 11 Nothing but scolding and noise;..I'd rather not marry at all: if she is thus randy beforehand what will she be afterwards?

1698 Culross Kirk Session Minutes 18 Sept. Seven pounds Scots..distributed to the randie beggars.

1714 A. Thomson Coldingham (1908) App. xxvi. 5 A vagabond harlot who went in company with one Margaret Bell, a known randie vagabond beggar.

?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 195 A merry core O' randie, gangrel bodies.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 294 It was him and his randie mother began a' the mischief in this house.

1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 489/2 Eaglesham was overrun with gipsies, tinkers, and randy beggars, and there was no magistrate within four miles.

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders iv. 42 Hearing what the pair of old randy wives had to say to me.

1936 J. G. Horne Flooer o' Ling 1 A randie chiel Doxie at heel Gaed stavin throu the thrang.

2003 D. Purves Jade Lute (SCOTS) Gruesum wyfes an randie byde-ins—the aulder lyke thay growe the mair thay'r the same!

2. Chiefly Scottish and English regional. Boisterous, riotous, disorderly; wild, unruly, unmanageable. Now rare except as merged with sense A. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective]

wildc1000

unthewedc1175

wanton?a1300

rabbisha1387

irregular1395

inordinate1398

unruly1400

misgoverned?a1425

misruled?a1425

misruly?a1425

unruleful1439

seditious1447

rulelessc1460

turbulous1527

undaunted1533

turbulent1538

unordinate1561

rowsey1565

misorderlya1568

disruly1570

rabbling1575

disorderous1579

irregulate1579

disorderly1585

break-dance1587

willyart?1590

unguided1600

inorderly1606

anarchial1609

irregulousa1616

unmasterlya1623

uncomposed1631

obstreperous1641

disriegled1657

ranting1658

rantipole1660

reuling1691

shandy1691

rumblegarie1722

randy1723

obstropolous1727

wanruly1773

polrumptious1787

ree-raw1800

rambunctious1830

roid1874

unordered1929

rogue1948

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough > rough or boisterous

robustious1548

boisterous1568

rory-tory1683

randy1723

rumgumptious1781

lungeous1787

rowdy dowdy1816

roaritorious1821

riproarious1830

rough and tumble1831

rowdy1832

rowdy-dow1832

tear-brass1880

knockabout1885

rory-cum-tory1893

roughhouse1896

1723 W. Meston Knight i. 8 A rambling, randy Errant Knight.

1822 J. Galt Provost xxxvi. 262 With other siclike fantastical and randy ranting.

1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 140 He's a randie loon; he'll gaither wit yet.

1874 J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth Ribblesdale I. 21 Mind you long-horned cattle..they are apt to be randy.

1884 Punch 8 Mar. 118/1 That young bay you'll find a little randy, With rather more of ‘devil’ than comes handy.

1900 S. R. Crockett Little Anna Mark xii. 104 Yon ill-set randy lass-bairn has broken my shuttle-airm wi' a stane.

1935 W. D. Cocker Further Poems 55 He was richt in tid for a randy splore.

3. Originally Scottish and English regional. Lustful; eager for sexual gratification; sexually aroused. (Now the usual sense.)

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective]

golelichc1000

luxuriousc1330

jollyc1384

lustyc1386

Venerienc1386

nicea1393

gayc1405

lasciviousc1425

libidinous1447

Venerian1448

coltishc1450

gigly1482

lubric1490

ranka1500

venereous1509

lubricous1535

venerious1547

boarish?1550

goatish?1552

cadye1554

lusting1559

coy1570

rage1573

rammish1577

venerial1577

lustful1579

rageous1579

proud1590

lust-breathed1594

rampant1596

venerous1597

sharp-seta1600

fulsome1600

lubrical1602

hot-backed1607

ruttish1607

stoned1607

muskish-minded1610

Venerean1612

saucya1616

veneral1623

lascive1647

venereal1652

lascivient1653

hircine1656

hot-tempered1673

ramp1678

randy1771

concupiscenta1834

aphrodisiac1862

lubricious1884

radgie1894

1771 J. Potter Curate of Coventry I. 172 A pox on these old maids, they're as randy as a he goat.

1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words Randy, wanton; lecherous.

c1890 My Secret Life III. 280 She'll be randy directly her belly is filled.

1922 F. Harris My Life & Loves I. iii. 61 By thinking of Lucille and her soft, hot, hairy ‘pussy’, I grew randy again.

1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath vi. 69 Fust time I ever laid with a girl..snortin' like a buck deer, randy as a billygoat.

1957 W. Camp Prospects of Love ii. v. 62 Suffers from too much sex, if anything—he's a randy old man.

1978 K. J. Dover Greek Homosexuality ii. 38 The gangs or clubs of randy and combative young men.

2006 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 May 66 The curse of the British is not randy alpha males preying on unsuspecting maidens.

B. n.¹ Scottish, English regional (northern) and Irish English.

1. An aggressive or rude-mannered beggar; a vagrant; (in extended use) a wild or unruly person.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp

harlot?c1225

raikera1400

vacabond1404

vagrant1444

gangrela1450

briber?c1475

palliard1484

vagabondc1485

rogue1489

wavenger1493

hermit1495

gaberlunzie1508

knight of the field1508

loiterer1530

straggler1530

runagate1534

ruffler1535

hedge-creeper1548

Abraham man1567

cursitor1567

runner1567

walker1567

tinker1575

traveller1598

Tartar1602

stravagant1606

wagand1614

Circumcellion1623

meechera1625

hedge-bird1631

gaberlunzie man1649

tramp1664

stroller1681

jockey1685

bird of passage1717

randy1724

tramper1760

stalko1804

vagabondager1813

rintherout1814

piker1838

pikey1838

beachcomber1840

roadster1851

vagabondizer1860

roustabout1862

bum1864

migratory1866

potter1867

sundowner1868

vag1868

walkabout1872

transient1877

Murrumbidgee whaler1878

rouster1882

run-the-hedge1882

whaler1883

shaughraun1884

heather-cat1886

hobo1889

tussocker1889

gay cat1893

overlander1898

stake-man1899

stiff1899

bindle-stiff1900

dingbat1902

stew-bum1902

tired Tim (also Timothy)1906

skipper1925

Strandlooper1927

knight of the road1928

hobohemian1936

plain turkey1955

scrub turkey1955

derro1963

jakey1988

crusty1990

1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (new ed.) I. 38 I'm sure the Chief of a' his Kin Was Rab the Beggar Randy.

1736 Arbirlot Kirk Session Rec. 18 Sept. He entertained Tinklers and Randies in his House on the Sabbath day giving them drink till they were drunk.

1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 515 Many Randies (sturdy vagrants) infest this country.

1796 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 427 Reif randies, I disown ye!

1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. (E.D.S.) Randies, itinerant beggars and ballad-singers.

1863 J. Hamilton Poems & Ess. 45 Some are decent, some are dandies, An' a gey wheen drucken randies.

1884 Good Words 25 161 She's a regular randy, nigh as bad as a gipsy. She's never in the house.

1933 I. Macpherson Land of our Fathers 369 The damn randy, that's what he is..off on the randan again.

1979 A. Temperley Tales of Galloway (1986) 16 Billy Marshall—tinkler, gipsy chief,..king of the randies, claimed by some as the last of the Pictish kings—was commonly accepted to be 120 years old when he died on 28th November, 1792.

2. A loud, coarse, or quarrelsome woman; a scold, a virago.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew

scoldc1175

shrewc1386

viragoc1386

scolder1423

common scold1467

wild cat1570

vixen1575

callet1577

termagant1578

(Long) Meg of Westminster1589

butter whore1592

cotquean1593

scrattop1593

scoldsterc1600

butter-quean1613

Xantippea1616

fury1620

Tartar1669

fish-woman1698

cross-patch1699

Whitechapel fortune1734

brimstone1751

randy1762

fish-fag1786

rantipole1790

skellata1810

skimmington1813

targer1822

skellat-bell1827

catamaran1834

nagster1873

yenta1923

1762 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Randie Helen Stranger has the Character of a Randy or Scold in the Country.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 201 The daft speeches of an auld jaud..a daft auld whig randie.

1850 T. Carlyle Let. 19 Aug. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1997) XXV. 161 Do not let that scandalous randy of a girl disturb you.

1874 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 43/1 A large, coarsely-handsome woman, loud-voiced and hot-tempered, the most terrible scold and ‘randy’ on all Eskside.

1932 J. White Moss Road iii Of course, we all ken that Betsy's an auld randy an' should be ducked in a moss-pot.

1961 D. Craig Sc. Lit. & Sc. People, 1680–1830 iv. 315 In this final novel of Lawrence's, Mellors, the gamekeeper, tied by marriage to a randy in the village, becomes the lover of Lady Constance Chatterley.

1987 D. Purves Ill Guidmither (SCOTS) i. iii She's a richt randie whan she gits stertit.

Compounds

randy-arsed adj. readily aroused, lustful.

ΚΠ

c1890 My Secret Life V. x. 201 If she is..what is called ‘hot arsed’ or hot cunted, or ‘randy arsed’—and this lewedness has continued for a long time without the relief given by fucking, she is subject to hysterics.

1968 H. C. Rae Few Small Bones iii. viii. 216 Beefy, randy-arsed wives crying out for a length.

randy-dog n. attributive characteristic of a lustful dog.

ΚΠ

1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Jan. 37/4 Harold Barlow is an Amis character..with that special randy-dog flavour.

1973 M. 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.

Derivatives

ˈrandily adv. lustfully, in a randy manner (see sense A. 3).

ΚΠ

1969 Times 31 July 7/6 Part and performance are really half of a double act with the mistress: the first virginally permissive, the other randily bigoted.

2003 M. Walsh And All Saints lxiv. 326 All this talk about love got me to thinking and maybe a little randily at that.

ˈrandy-like adj. Scottish resembling a scold or virago (see sense B. 2).

ΚΠ

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 10/1 A randy-like woman.

1882 ‘S. Tytler’ Sc. Marriages II. 116 A very randy-like servant.

1911 G. M. Gordon Auld Clay Biggin' 22 A middle-aged, randy-like wife, black as peat, sat i' the front driving.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† randyv.¹

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: rant v.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of rant v. (perhaps compare -y suffix², although there is apparently no evidence for a south-western localization of this word). Compare later rand v.²

Obsolete.

intransitive. To canvass for votes.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [verb (intransitive)] > canvass

canvass1681

randy1709

rand1740

campaign1884

1709 W. Oldisworth Dial. Timothy & Philatheus I. 65 I am so far from reading any thing of their treating the Mob, or randying for Votes: that..I scarce ever meet with an Author that could assure me of their eating and drinking.

1710 C. Davenant New Dial. II. 177 Sir Thomas and his Uncle Rook, who..have been lately randying at their Boroughs.

1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. ii. iii. 23 He was here..randying for a Knight of his Acquaintance, with no less than Six Hundred Freeholders at his Heels.

1786 R. Graves Lucubrations 78 Randying with the mob in Covent-Garden, at the Westminster election.

Derivatives

randying n.

ΚΠ

1712 March & Oct. 4 'Tis one thing to be at a Randying, and another to be at the Club.

1750 T. Gordon Cordial Low-spirits 57 Who advised him, as soon as ever he came to the randying ground, to bray with all his might.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

randyv.²

Brit.

/ˈrandi/, U.S.

/ˈrændi/, Scottish English

/ˈrandɪ/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: randy n.²

Etymology: < randy n.²

Scottish and English regional (northern). Now rare.

intransitive. To make merry; to go on a drinking spree.

ΚΠ

1832 Boston (Lincs.) Herald 4 Dec. 4/3 A number of labouring bankers were ‘randying’ at the Woolpack inn.

1833 Times 12 Jan. 1/6 Early in the day about 70 of these semi-savages arrived at Wainfleet, where they remained ‘randying’, as they term drinking.

1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. iv. 62 I fetch him hoome fra' that big hoose yonder, after he's been randyin' ower long.

1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire (at cited word) It wouldna do for mey to go randyin' off to Maupas every dee.

1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Randy, to go on the booze.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

randyv.³

Brit.

/ˈrandi/, U.S.

/ˈrændi/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: randy adj.

Etymology: < randy adj. (compare randy adj. 3).

transitive. To make (a person) lustful.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1961 A. 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.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.²1825

adj.n.¹1665

v.¹1709

v.²1832

v.³1961

单词	randy
释义	randyn.² Brit. /ˈrandi/, U.S. /ˈrændi/ Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: rendezvous n. Etymology: Probably shortened < rendezvous n. (compare β. forms at that entry, and perhaps compare also rendy n.), although probably also influenced by association with randy adj. (compare randy adj. 2, although the regional distribution does not correspond closely) and perhaps also randan n.¹ Perhaps compare also later randy v.² English regional. Now chiefly historical. A noisy merrymaking or revel. Also randy-go.In later use probably influenced by randy adj. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > [noun] > noisy or riotous revela1375 riotc1440 revel-rout1587 wassail1603 randan1640 rant1650 high-go1774 splore?a1786 gilravagea1796 spree1804 lark1811 spray1813 shindy1821 randy1825 randy-dandy1835 batter1839 flare-up1844 barney1850 jamboree1868 tear1869 whoop-up1876 beano1888 razzle1892 razzle-dazzle1893 bash1901 1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 62 Randy, a merry-making; riotous living. 1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln Gloss. s.v. ‘He was at the randy’. Rendezvous. 1881 C. 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. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxiii. 163 A rattling good randy wi' fiddles and bass-viols complete. 1934 L. MacNeice Poems (1935) 18 Over the randy of the theatre and cinema I hear songs. 1976 National Times (Austral.) 27 Sept. 17/2 Mr Pennal explained that ‘randy’ was an old Dorset word for a frolic, and part of the frolic was that the young men chased the girls with a tickling pole, and when they caught them they could claim a kiss. 2004 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 13 Dec. 14 At the turn of the year, in 1897, a more than usually festive ‘randy’ got totally out of hand. Phrases on the (also a) randy: in a spell of debauched or riotous living; ‘on the spree’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [adverb] > noisy or riotous roistingly1571 on (also upon) the randan1652 roisteringly1659 tory-rory1665 on (also upon) the spree1847 on a spree1847 on (or upon) the loose1849 on the fly1851 on the (also a) randy1857 on the tiles1887 1857 T. Wright Dict. Obsolete & Provinc. Eng. (at cited word) On the randy, living in debauchery. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 202/1 Bill's on the randy to-day. 1940 D. 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.’ 1978 M. J. Winstanley Life in Kent at Turn of Cent. v. 65 Yes, they were trustworthy till they went on the randy as we used to call it. Bad boys really, you know, but all right with us. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). randyadj.n.¹ Brit. /ˈrandi/, U.S. /ˈrændi/, Scottish English /ˈrandɪ/, Irish English /ˈrændi/ Forms: α. 1700s– randy; Scottish pre-1700 1700s– randie, pre-1700 1700s– randy, 1800s raundie, 1900s– randi. β. Scottish 1700s rawny. Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rant v., -y suffix¹. Etymology: Probably < rant v. (see α. forms at that entry) + -y suffix¹. A. adj. 1. Scottish. Having a rude, aggressive manner; loud-mouthed and coarsely spoken.In early use always of beggars, and probably implying vagrant habits as well as rude behaviour. Later applied chiefly to women. ΚΠ 1665 Earl of Argyll Let. in G. Sinclair & C. K. Sharpe Lett. Argyll to Lauderdale (1829) 25 Profane randy beggars. 1682 in D. Robertson S. Leith Rec. (1911) 142 That no randie beggar be recepd by any of this toune. 1697 M. Pix Innocent Mistress ii. 11 Nothing but scolding and noise;..I'd rather not marry at all: if she is thus randy beforehand what will she be afterwards? 1698 Culross Kirk Session Minutes 18 Sept. Seven pounds Scots..distributed to the randie beggars. 1714 A. Thomson Coldingham (1908) App. xxvi. 5 A vagabond harlot who went in company with one Margaret Bell, a known randie vagabond beggar. ?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 195 A merry core O' randie, gangrel bodies. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 294 It was him and his randie mother began a' the mischief in this house. 1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 489/2 Eaglesham was overrun with gipsies, tinkers, and randy beggars, and there was no magistrate within four miles. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders iv. 42 Hearing what the pair of old randy wives had to say to me. 1936 J. G. Horne Flooer o' Ling 1 A randie chiel Doxie at heel Gaed stavin throu the thrang. 2003 D. Purves Jade Lute (SCOTS) Gruesum wyfes an randie byde-ins—the aulder lyke thay growe the mair thay'r the same! 2. Chiefly Scottish and English regional. Boisterous, riotous, disorderly; wild, unruly, unmanageable. Now rare except as merged with sense A. 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] wildc1000 unthewedc1175 wanton?a1300 rabbisha1387 irregular1395 inordinate1398 unruly1400 misgoverned?a1425 misruled?a1425 misruly?a1425 unruleful1439 seditious1447 rulelessc1460 turbulous1527 undaunted1533 turbulent1538 unordinate1561 rowsey1565 misorderlya1568 disruly1570 rabbling1575 disorderous1579 irregulate1579 disorderly1585 break-dance1587 willyart?1590 unguided1600 inorderly1606 anarchial1609 irregulousa1616 unmasterlya1623 uncomposed1631 obstreperous1641 disriegled1657 ranting1658 rantipole1660 reuling1691 shandy1691 rumblegarie1722 randy1723 obstropolous1727 wanruly1773 polrumptious1787 ree-raw1800 rambunctious1830 roid1874 unordered1929 rogue1948 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > rough > rough or boisterous robustious1548 boisterous1568 rory-tory1683 randy1723 rumgumptious1781 lungeous1787 rowdy dowdy1816 roaritorious1821 riproarious1830 rough and tumble1831 rowdy1832 rowdy-dow1832 tear-brass1880 knockabout1885 rory-cum-tory1893 roughhouse1896 1723 W. Meston Knight i. 8 A rambling, randy Errant Knight. 1822 J. Galt Provost xxxvi. 262 With other siclike fantastical and randy ranting. 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 140 He's a randie loon; he'll gaither wit yet. 1874 J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth Ribblesdale I. 21 Mind you long-horned cattle..they are apt to be randy. 1884 Punch 8 Mar. 118/1 That young bay you'll find a little randy, With rather more of ‘devil’ than comes handy. 1900 S. R. Crockett Little Anna Mark xii. 104 Yon ill-set randy lass-bairn has broken my shuttle-airm wi' a stane. 1935 W. D. Cocker Further Poems 55 He was richt in tid for a randy splore. 3. Originally Scottish and English regional. Lustful; eager for sexual gratification; sexually aroused. (Now the usual sense.) ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] golelichc1000 luxuriousc1330 jollyc1384 lustyc1386 Venerienc1386 nicea1393 gayc1405 lasciviousc1425 libidinous1447 Venerian1448 coltishc1450 gigly1482 lubric1490 ranka1500 venereous1509 lubricous1535 venerious1547 boarish?1550 goatish?1552 cadye1554 lusting1559 coy1570 rage1573 rammish1577 venerial1577 lustful1579 rageous1579 proud1590 lust-breathed1594 rampant1596 venerous1597 sharp-seta1600 fulsome1600 lubrical1602 hot-backed1607 ruttish1607 stoned1607 muskish-minded1610 Venerean1612 saucya1616 veneral1623 lascive1647 venereal1652 lascivient1653 hircine1656 hot-tempered1673 ramp1678 randy1771 concupiscenta1834 aphrodisiac1862 lubricious1884 radgie1894 1771 J. Potter Curate of Coventry I. 172 A pox on these old maids, they're as randy as a he goat. 1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words Randy, wanton; lecherous. c1890 My Secret Life III. 280 She'll be randy directly her belly is filled. 1922 F. Harris My Life & Loves I. iii. 61 By thinking of Lucille and her soft, hot, hairy ‘pussy’, I grew randy again. 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath vi. 69 Fust time I ever laid with a girl..snortin' like a buck deer, randy as a billygoat. 1957 W. Camp Prospects of Love ii. v. 62 Suffers from too much sex, if anything—he's a randy old man. 1978 K. J. Dover Greek Homosexuality ii. 38 The gangs or clubs of randy and combative young men. 2006 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 May 66 The curse of the British is not randy alpha males preying on unsuspecting maidens. B. n.¹ Scottish, English regional (northern) and Irish English. 1. An aggressive or rude-mannered beggar; a vagrant; (in extended use) a wild or unruly person. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp harlot?c1225 raikera1400 vacabond1404 vagrant1444 gangrela1450 briber?c1475 palliard1484 vagabondc1485 rogue1489 wavenger1493 hermit1495 gaberlunzie1508 knight of the field1508 loiterer1530 straggler1530 runagate1534 ruffler1535 hedge-creeper1548 Abraham man1567 cursitor1567 runner1567 walker1567 tinker1575 traveller1598 Tartar1602 stravagant1606 wagand1614 Circumcellion1623 meechera1625 hedge-bird1631 gaberlunzie man1649 tramp1664 stroller1681 jockey1685 bird of passage1717 randy1724 tramper1760 stalko1804 vagabondager1813 rintherout1814 piker1838 pikey1838 beachcomber1840 roadster1851 vagabondizer1860 roustabout1862 bum1864 migratory1866 potter1867 sundowner1868 vag1868 walkabout1872 transient1877 Murrumbidgee whaler1878 rouster1882 run-the-hedge1882 whaler1883 shaughraun1884 heather-cat1886 hobo1889 tussocker1889 gay cat1893 overlander1898 stake-man1899 stiff1899 bindle-stiff1900 dingbat1902 stew-bum1902 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 skipper1925 Strandlooper1927 knight of the road1928 hobohemian1936 plain turkey1955 scrub turkey1955 derro1963 jakey1988 crusty1990 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (new ed.) I. 38 I'm sure the Chief of a' his Kin Was Rab the Beggar Randy. 1736 Arbirlot Kirk Session Rec. 18 Sept. He entertained Tinklers and Randies in his House on the Sabbath day giving them drink till they were drunk. 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 515 Many Randies (sturdy vagrants) infest this country. 1796 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 427 Reif randies, I disown ye! 1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. (E.D.S.) Randies, itinerant beggars and ballad-singers. 1863 J. Hamilton Poems & Ess. 45 Some are decent, some are dandies, An' a gey wheen drucken randies. 1884 Good Words 25 161 She's a regular randy, nigh as bad as a gipsy. She's never in the house. 1933 I. Macpherson Land of our Fathers 369 The damn randy, that's what he is..off on the randan again. 1979 A. Temperley Tales of Galloway (1986) 16 Billy Marshall—tinkler, gipsy chief,..king of the randies, claimed by some as the last of the Pictish kings—was commonly accepted to be 120 years old when he died on 28th November, 1792. 2. A loud, coarse, or quarrelsome woman; a scold, a virago. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > ill nature in woman or shrewishness > [noun] > shrew scoldc1175 shrewc1386 viragoc1386 scolder1423 common scold1467 wild cat1570 vixen1575 callet1577 termagant1578 (Long) Meg of Westminster1589 butter whore1592 cotquean1593 scrattop1593 scoldsterc1600 butter-quean1613 Xantippea1616 fury1620 Tartar1669 fish-woman1698 cross-patch1699 Whitechapel fortune1734 brimstone1751 randy1762 fish-fag1786 rantipole1790 skellata1810 skimmington1813 targer1822 skellat-bell1827 catamaran1834 nagster1873 yenta1923 1762 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Randie Helen Stranger has the Character of a Randy or Scold in the Country. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 201 The daft speeches of an auld jaud..a daft auld whig randie. 1850 T. Carlyle Let. 19 Aug. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1997) XXV. 161 Do not let that scandalous randy of a girl disturb you. 1874 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 43/1 A large, coarsely-handsome woman, loud-voiced and hot-tempered, the most terrible scold and ‘randy’ on all Eskside. 1932 J. White Moss Road iii Of course, we all ken that Betsy's an auld randy an' should be ducked in a moss-pot. 1961 D. Craig Sc. Lit. & Sc. People, 1680–1830 iv. 315 In this final novel of Lawrence's, Mellors, the gamekeeper, tied by marriage to a randy in the village, becomes the lover of Lady Constance Chatterley. 1987 D. Purves Ill Guidmither (SCOTS) i. iii She's a richt randie whan she gits stertit. Compounds randy-arsed adj. readily aroused, lustful. ΚΠ c1890 My Secret Life V. x. 201 If she is..what is called ‘hot arsed’ or hot cunted, or ‘randy arsed’—and this lewedness has continued for a long time without the relief given by fucking, she is subject to hysterics. 1968 H. C. Rae Few Small Bones iii. viii. 216 Beefy, randy-arsed wives crying out for a length. randy-dog n. attributive characteristic of a lustful dog. ΚΠ 1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Jan. 37/4 Harold Barlow is an Amis character..with that special randy-dog flavour. 1973 M. 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. Derivatives ˈrandily adv. lustfully, in a randy manner (see sense A. 3). ΚΠ 1969 Times 31 July 7/6 Part and performance are really half of a double act with the mistress: the first virginally permissive, the other randily bigoted. 2003 M. Walsh And All Saints lxiv. 326 All this talk about love got me to thinking and maybe a little randily at that. ˈrandy-like adj. Scottish resembling a scold or virago (see sense B. 2). ΚΠ 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 10/1 A randy-like woman. 1882 ‘S. Tytler’ Sc. Marriages II. 116 A very randy-like servant. 1911 G. M. Gordon Auld Clay Biggin' 22 A middle-aged, randy-like wife, black as peat, sat i' the front driving. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † randyv.¹ Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: rant v. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of rant v. (perhaps compare -y suffix², although there is apparently no evidence for a south-western localization of this word). Compare later rand v.² Obsolete. intransitive. To canvass for votes. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [verb (intransitive)] > canvass canvass1681 randy1709 rand1740 campaign1884 1709 W. Oldisworth Dial. Timothy & Philatheus I. 65 I am so far from reading any thing of their treating the Mob, or randying for Votes: that..I scarce ever meet with an Author that could assure me of their eating and drinking. 1710 C. Davenant New Dial. II. 177 Sir Thomas and his Uncle Rook, who..have been lately randying at their Boroughs. 1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. ii. iii. 23 He was here..randying for a Knight of his Acquaintance, with no less than Six Hundred Freeholders at his Heels. 1786 R. Graves Lucubrations 78 Randying with the mob in Covent-Garden, at the Westminster election. Derivatives randying n. ΚΠ 1712 March & Oct. 4 'Tis one thing to be at a Randying, and another to be at the Club. 1750 T. Gordon Cordial Low-spirits 57 Who advised him, as soon as ever he came to the randying ground, to bray with all his might. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2019). randyv.² Brit. /ˈrandi/, U.S. /ˈrændi/, Scottish English /ˈrandɪ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: randy n.² Etymology: < randy n.² Scottish and English regional (northern). Now rare. intransitive. To make merry; to go on a drinking spree. ΚΠ 1832 Boston (Lincs.) Herald 4 Dec. 4/3 A number of labouring bankers were ‘randying’ at the Woolpack inn. 1833 Times 12 Jan. 1/6 Early in the day about 70 of these semi-savages arrived at Wainfleet, where they remained ‘randying’, as they term drinking. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. iv. 62 I fetch him hoome fra' that big hoose yonder, after he's been randyin' ower long. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire (at cited word) It wouldna do for mey to go randyin' off to Maupas every dee. 1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Randy, to go on the booze. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). randyv.³ Brit. /ˈrandi/, U.S. /ˈrændi/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: randy adj. Etymology: < randy adj. (compare randy adj. 3). transitive. To make (a person) lustful.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1961 A. 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. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.²1825adj.n.¹1665v.¹1709v.²1832v.³1961
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