randy

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• răn'di
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• /ˈɹændi/
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• CMU ARPABET: R AE1 N D IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

Clipping of random + -y.

13 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: grof — rude or coarse
• Dutch: rauw — rude or coarse
• German: grob — rude or coarse
• German: gemein — rude or coarse
• Icelandic: grófur — rude or coarse
• Icelandic: ruddalegur — rude or coarse
• Icelandic: dónalegur — rude or coarse
• Icelandic: illa siðaður — rude or coarse
• Swedish: grov — rude or coarse
• Swedish: bufflig — rude or coarse
• Dutch: geus — impudent beggar
• Dutch: manwijf — virago
• Dutch: virago — virago