oatsy

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English

Etymology

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

Adjective

oatsy (comparative more oatsy, superlative most oatsy)

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

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