radgie gadgie
- noun
- /ˈrædʒi ˈɡædʒi/
- Offensive
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matón
- You don't want to mess with that radgie gadgie down the end of the road.
Examples
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That bloke is such a radgie gadgie at the pub!
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The teachers warned students to avoid becoming radgie gadgies during the football match.
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In the pub, everyone could tell Tom was a bit of a radgie gadgie after he started raising his voice.
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I can't believe he acted like a radgie gadgie last night.
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In the pub, everyone could tell Tom was a bit of a radgie gadgie after he started raising his voice.
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The teachers warned students to avoid becoming radgie gadgies during the football match.
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You don't want to mess with that radgie gadgie down the end of the road.
Synonyms
7
4.0
A person who makes a lot of noise and causes trouble in a group
3
8.6
A person who acts violently and often starts fights
A person who uses violence or threats to frighten others
Behaving in a noisy, cheeky way that ignores rules
A person who behaves loudly and wildly at parties
Antonyms
How Aggressive
- Offensive
∞
2.5
311
3.7
- Offensive
7
4.0
125
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
radgie + gadgie
Both constituents are regional/slang forms with no clear dictionary senses provided, so there is no transparent compositional meaning a B1 learner could apply. The compound is a dialectal, lexicalized label for a rowdy/aggressive person and its sense is region-specific and unpredictable from the parts, making it opaque to learners.
Etymology
The noun radgie gadgie may come from two older words: radgie, a word for someone full of 'rage' or quick anger, and gadgie, a word for a 'man' in northern speech. Together the picture is of a man who is angry and causes trouble, so radgie gadgie now means 'an aggressive or rowdy person'.