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randy

Pronunciation: /ˈɹændi/

The English word “randy” has 7 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Sexually aroused; full of sexual lust.
  2. Rude or coarse in manner.

noun

  1. An impudent beggar.
  2. A boisterous, coarse, loose woman.
  3. A virago.
  4. A random.
  5. A Two-and-a-half-twist acrobatic maneuver.

Etymology

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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