ranny noun a bold, unruly person: You are young Bryce’s wife, aren’t you? A real Perthshire ranny. 20-. Compare randie etymology: perhaps a development from Scots ranegill ‘a rough character, especially a Tinker’; or Roxburghshire Scots rannygill ‘a bold, impudent, unruly person’; Older Scots rannegald ‘a renegade, from ante 1508’; Old French has ringaille ‘the lowest ranks or riff-raff of an army’; attested by BW |