randyvoo n.
1. noise, arguments.
[ | Court magazine and belle assemblée Dec. 236/2: ‘Don’t you know that when folks find their way to the rendezvous- house with a useful hint, there's a nice reward for them [...] might not you as well earn the money as another?’ ‘Me go to the randyvoo house!’ cried the crone, lifting her hands; ‘it would be as much as my life's worth to be seen there’. | |
Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 206/1: Randy-voo (Army). Tavern which is the headquarters of recruiting sergeants. Also synonymous with noise and wrangling. |
2. (Aus./Irish/US) a tavern.
Lad of the O’Friel’s 193: ‘Come home,’ said she, scathingly, as they passed her in the door, — ‘Come home out of this randyvoo’. | ||
Arizona Repub. (Phoenix, AZ) 11 July 2/2: Mister Tagert’s Tavern [...] got the name of bein’ a Randyvoo for the Single an’ th’ Ungodly. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Nov. 44/1: That bummer as jist gone out shook me beer. [...] I thought I was in a respecterble pub, not a randyvoo ov tugs. | ||
Eng. Dial. of Donegal 226: Randy-voo, n. Also in form -boo. 1. A noisy disorderly place or meeting. |
3. a sexual encounter [SE randy].
[ | New Mthly Mag. Oct. 245: Crossing of the Jury mountings ewents accurd of a Dellicat nater wareby Unbenown to parints a Serting lady had a randyvoo with a serting gent which his Name shall never be menshund sept between frends]. | |
Horse’s Mouth (1948) 324: You always liked her better for a randyvoo [...] You always liked to triumph over the sizable ones. |