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oatsy en · ADJ

Etymology

From oats + -y, from feeling one's oats.

Meanings

  1. Energetic; frisky.
    • Between the two are several millenia ^([sic]) of legends, jokes, and gossip designed to keep the male feeling oatsy and master in the game of sex. 1975, Jean Scott MacKellar, Menachem Amir, Rape: The Bait and the Trap, page 13:

Forms

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most oatsy Degree=Sup lexicographic
more oatsy Degree=Cmp lexicographic