adjective enraged, wild 19-.
noun an idiot, a fool: ... Here, let mi tell ye aboot a peer loonie I kent and abody made a radge oot of him cos he wis a bittie queer-looking. ... [I want to tell you about a poor boy I knew and everyone made a fool of him because he was a bit odd-looking.] 20-. etymology: possibly a variant of English adjective ‘rage’; there may also have been influence especially in southern Scots from Gypsy raj, rajy with the same meaning and of the same origin; form raj collected by EMcC/PS and attested in Shelta; form rauge collected by Simson (1865) and attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies and JS; form raage collected by Rev John Baird; form raj attested by BS in TDITA; noun attested by SR note:
This word has developed and has passed into the language of the wider Scots speaking population. For example, an Edinburgh Scots speaker would understand the adjectives radge and radgie to mean ‘sexually excited’. It is also defined as a a woman considered to have loose morals, or a lively girl. These meanings also may have ultimately come from the Travellers because they are attested by informants from the Borders, Kirkcudbrightshire and Aberdeenshire, all areas that Travellers were known to wander in.
Canadian Paul Pope (2013) defines radge as ‘a bit of a fool’.