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Definition: Randy |
RandyAdjective1. Feeling great sexual desire; "feeling horny". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Randy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a shield's rim", "a wolf". |
Date "randy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | RANDY. Obstreperous, unruly, rampant. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: RandySynonyms: aroused (adj), horny (adj), ruttish (adj), turned on(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat. |
Sexuality | Hot, horny, randy, rutting; passionate, lusty, hot-blooded, libidinous; up, in the mood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Randy lay there like a slug... (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown, Bob Clark, and Jean Shepherd.) Oh my God, Randy this is so awkward you walking on me and Zac like this. (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen) Oh come on Randy, with all due respect, the killer obvious patterned himself after two serial killers who were immortalized on film. (Scream 2; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) You know what Randy, you're totally right and you know what I'm gonna do for ya? (Trailer Park Boys; writing credit: Mike Clattenburg; Barrie Dunn) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Randy Brooks and Orchestra (1945) Giant Steps: The Randy J. Bertish Story (1999) Randy Financial Advisor (1998) The Killing of Randy Webster (1981) | |
Song Titles | Denise (performing artist: Randy and the Rainbows) SHORT PEOPLE (performing artist: Randy Newman ) Forever & Ever Amen (performing artist: Randy Travis) On The Other Hand (performing artist: Randy Travis) Just When I Needed You Most (performing artist: Randy Van Warmer) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | You aren't tough enough for AIDS p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Randy Anderson, Studio 3.. |
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Human Rights | Cuba | On August 14, prison authorities informed Yesenia Rodriguez Aguilar, the wife of Randy Cabrera Mayor, that she could not visit him because "he is a counterrevolutionary." Cabrera is serving a 16-year prison term for attempting to leave the country illegally and for having fled prison a number of times; Cabrera's previous imprisonment was due to his refusal to serve in the army. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Randy" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 58.28% of the time. "Randy" is used about 163 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 58.28% | 95 | 33,629 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 39.26% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.45% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 163 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "randy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Randy | First name Female | 3,000 | 1,695 |
| Randy | First name Male | 232,000 | 78 |
| Randy | Last name | 200 | 39,497 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Randy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a shield's rim", "a wolf". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Randy." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Randal | Male | English | Randall |
| Randall | Male | English | Randolf |
| Randell | Male | English | Randall |
| Randi | Female | English | Randy |
| Randolf | Male | English | N/A |
| Randy | Male, Female | English | Randall |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
randy travis | 1,202 |
randy johnson | 363 |
randy orton | 358 |
rhoads randy | 317 |
randy harrison | 301 |
randy | 218 |
randy moss | 209 |
randy newman | 202 |
randy travis lyrics | 191 |
randy jackson | 167 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "randy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Lypës (beggar, bum, Cadger, lack-all, mendicant, moocher, mumper), I Eksituar (white hot), Grua Grinjare, Eksitues, Brutal (bestial, boorish, brutal, brutish, rank, rusty, slangy, truculent, unfinished, unhandsome, unrefined). (various references) | |
Arabic | لديها رغبة عارمة للجنس, صاخب (boisterous, discordant, furious, gusty, loud, loudmouthed, obstreperous, rackety, rattling, raucous, riotous, rip roaring, roistering, saturnine, shrill, staring, tempestuous, termagant, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), شهواني (amorous, carnal, erotic, instinctive, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lush, lustful, luxurious, passionate, salacious, satyr, sensual, sensualist, sportive, sultry, voluptuary, voluptuous, wanton, warm). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Просташки, Похотлив, Непорядъчна Жена, Буен, Шумен, Свадлива Жена (Xanthippe). (various references) | |
Czech | Vzrušený (agitated, excited, heated), Smyslný (carnal, earthly, sensual, sensuous, sultry, voluptuous, wanton), Chlípný (lecherous, prurient, rammish, ruttish, salacious). (various references) | |
French | Qui Est Tout Excité, Libidineux, Excité, Bruyant (rackety, rattling). (various references) | |
German | Geil (brilliant, fat, fatty, fertile, greasy, horny, lecherous, lustful, lustily, luxurious, prurient, rank, raunchy, rich, wicked). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Lármázó (boisterous, roister-doister, roistering, rowdy, vociferous), kanos (rooty), kéjvágyó (lascivious, lecherous, lustful, prurient), erőszakos (boisterous, bounder, browbeating, bullying, hairy-assed, obtrusive, overbearing, self-assertive, shrill, violent), begerjedt (hot). (various references) | |
Italian | Lascivo (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, lustful, lustily, prurient, voluptuous, wanton). (various references) | |
Manx | reagh (amorous, blithe, frisky, frolicsome, lecherous, mirthful, playful, sportive), kiaullaneagh (bell-like, blatant, clamorous, hectoring, loud, loud-mouthed, orchestral, robustious, roistering, squealing, stormy, strident; roisterer, vociferous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andyray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Robusto (able bodied, cant, Hale, hefty, lusty, masculinity, nervy, robust, rugged, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, tough, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome), Turbulento (bacchic, disorderly, fractious, high, inordinate, knockabout, noisy, obstruct, rackety, rampageous, riotous, rowdy, rumbustious, stormy, tempestuous, termagant, turbulent, unquiet), Mulher Turbulenta (vixen), Megera (Beldam, shrew, shrewish, termagant, vixen, Xanthippe), Excitado (ablaze, astir, heartwarming, het up, horny, hot, jumpy, nervous, passionate, vibrant, warm), Barulhento (altisonant, blustering, bustling, clamant, clamorous, fussy, howling, judas-colored, judas-coloured, knockabout, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rattling, red, riotous, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, viatic). (various references) | |
Romanian | Zgomotos (bacchanal, blusterous, boisterous, clamant, clamorous, loud, noisily, noisy, obstreperous, rampageous, rattling, resoundingly, riotous, robustious, roisterer, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous, wanton), Vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), Turbulent (boisterous, disorderly, noisy, obstreperous, riotous, turbulent, unschooled), Senzual (amative, carnal, concupiscent, fleshly, fleshy, full-blooded, lecherous, lustful, luxurious, salacious, sensual, sensuous, voluptuous), Scorpie (devil's daughter, fury, hag, scorpion, shrew, termagant, virago, vixen), Lasciv (lascivious, lecherous, lewd, lickerish, liquorish, prurient, salacious, wanton), Gãlãgios (blatant, blustering, brawler, clamant, clamorous, loud, noisy, rampageous, rattling, rioter, riotous, rip roaring, roisterer, rowdy, unruly, vociferous), Femeie Rea (virago), Excitat (excited, horny, nervy). (various references) | |
Russian | "рубый, 'едьма, Бродяга (Ranger). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pohotljiv (concupiscent, fleshly, goatish, goaty, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, lustful, lusty, prurient, rammish, salacious, voluptuous), aspida (asp, scorpion, vixen). (various references) | |
Spanish | Cachondo (fast, horny, hot, lustful, lustily). (various references) | |
Swedish | Kåt (horny). (various references) | |
Thai | ลามก (dirty, obscene, risque). (various references) | |
Turkish | Kuduruk (enraged, rabid, rampageous), Azgın Erkek (goat, stud), Azgın (desperate, excessive, fierce, furious, goatish, mad, rampageous, rampant, skittish, wild), Þehvetli, Arsız (bare faced, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brassy, calm, cheeky, daft, flip, flippant, fresh, hard bitten, Hardy, impudent, malapert, perky, pert, sassy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing, vigorous), Ýnatçı (Froward). (various references) | |
Ukranian | Надокучливий Жебрак, "рубий, Бродяга, Сварлива Жінка, Сварливий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hay l m "n o, hay la lối om sòm hung hăng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "randy": brandy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "randy": brandying. (additional references) | |
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"Randy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Radday, Rahdy, Ranby, Randa, Rando, Raniya, Rinty, Rondi, rundy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "randy" (pronounced ra"ndē) |
| 5 | r a" n d ē | brandy. |
| 4 | -a" n d ē | bandy, candy, Dandy, handy, Sandy, shandy. |
| 3 | -n d ē | attendee, Burgundy, glissandi, Lindy, trendy, windy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: darn, dray, nard, nary, rand, rynd, yard, yarn. | |
-2 letters: and, any, day, dry, nay, rad, ran, ray, rya, yar. | |
-3 letters: ad, an, ar, ay, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-n-r-y" | |
+1 letter: brandy, denary, yarned. | |
+2 letters: ardency, deanery, draying, drayman, draymen, dryland, grandly, hydrant, lanyard, laundry, organdy, reynard, tanyard, tardyon, unready, yarding, yardman, yardmen, yearend, yearned. | |
+3 letters: aerodyne, ardently, aroynted, banditry, barnyard, boneyard, boundary, condylar, crayoned, dairying, dairyman, dairymen, daringly, deaconry, decenary, dormancy, dynatron, endarchy, gynandry, hydranth, hydrants, intraday, inwardly, junkyard, lanyards, misandry, monandry, mordancy, nondairy, nonhardy, ordinary, pedantry, pyranoid, quandary, radiancy, rancidly, randomly, readying, repandly, reynards, sardonyx, tanyards, tardyons, underlay, underpay, underway, verdancy, vineyard, wardenry, yardland, yardwand, yearends. | |
+4 letters: adoringly, aerodynes, androgyne, androgyny, anhydride, anhydrite, anhydrous, arytenoid, barnyards, blarneyed, boneyards, brandying, bystander, candygram, chandlery, dairyings, damnatory, dandruffy, darlingly, defraying, diachrony, dignitary, diurnally, dragonfly, dynamiter, dynamotor, dynatrons, endurably, fairyland, grandaddy, grandbaby, husbandry, hydrangea, hydranths, hydrating, hydration, hydrazine, hydrozoan, junkyards, learnedly, legendary, mandatary, mandatory, mordantly, niggardly, parodying, polyandry, radiantly, rancidity, roundelay, secondary, sedentary, underlays, underpays, underplay, unsprayed, verdantly, vineyards, yardlands, yardwands, zemindary. | |
+5 letters: adherently, admiringly, admonitory, advertency, amendatory, androgynes, anhydrides, anhydrites, arytenoids, bradykinin, bystanders, candygrams, cardinally, chardonnay, commandery, cybernated, debonairly, degeneracy, dictionary, disharmony, dispensary, divinatory, downwardly, draggingly, drawlingly, dynamiters, dynamotors, fairylands, gendarmery, granddaddy, gynandries, gynandrous, hydrangeas, hydrations, hydrazines, hydromancy, hydrophane, hydroplane, hydrozoans, incendiary, indicatory, inundatory, ladyfinger, laundryman, laundrymen, ordinarily, pardonably, playground, prebendary, pyramiding, pyranoside, reanalyzed, redundancy, roundelays, sandpapery, sardonyxes, standardly, syndicator, tyrannised, tyrannized, underplays, undulatory, untowardly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 6E 64 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -. -.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01101110 01100100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a n d y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 006E 0064 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5267807091 |
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