ran danとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: răn′dăn′
• ハイフネーション: ran‧dan

語源 1

From a conflation of rand (“to storm, rave”) and obsolete random (“impetuosity, force”).

名詞

randan (plural randans)

1. (Scotland) Riotous or disorderly behaviour.
2. (Scotland) A rowdy celebration; a spree.

   on the randan (also on the randy)

   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Black Andie’s Tale of Tod Lapraik”, in Catriona, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 172:

     He was fond of a lass and fond of a glass, and fond of a ran-dan; […]

語源 2

Unknown.

名詞

randan (plural randans)

1. The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran.
2. A boat propelled by three oarsmen.

参照

• “randan”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.