We're abandoning Chambers's Scots Dictionary for the moment and coming bang up to date (well...1970s/80s) with our Scots wurds o' th' day.
Fuckin' radge. Or, fuckin' radgepot. Common parlance in the Edinburgh I remember so well from my youth.
Fuckin' adj. (NOT Scots, of course. It's merely a frequently employed prefix)
Radge(pot) n.
As in, "Ye're a fuckin' radgepot, ya bam."
I've just consulted Chambers's Scots dictionary (1959 edition) and I find the word "radgie". Interesting. I wonder if this is the same word? The dictionary has it as an adjective.
Radgie, adj. horse, &c.: becoming excited and plunging wildly.
It sounds plausible anyway.
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