horny

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈhɔːni/
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/ˈhɔːni/ · /ˈhoɹni/

Definition of horny

6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
    “Two Dwarfs were at the bellows, another was holding a piece of red-hot metal on the anvil with a pair of tongs, a fourth was hammering it, and two, wiping their horny little hands on a greasy cloth, were coming forward to meet the visitors.”
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adj

  1. Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
    “Two Dwarfs were at the bellows, another was holding a piece of red-hot metal on the anvil with a pair of tongs, a fourth was hammering it, and two, wiping their horny little hands on a greasy cloth, were coming forward to meet the visitors.”
  2. Having the hard consistency and pale colour of an animal's horn.
    “She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film.”
  3. Having horns.
    “In 1997, 4th and 5th grade Waterville Elementary students told me they saw Short-horned lizards (commonly known as Horny toads) all around their area.”
  4. (slang)Sexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire.
    “[H]er thick, gurgling voice saying […]: "Get it in all the way… please, please do… I’m horny."”
    “After a while I sat down in a chair and smoked a couple of cigarettes. I was feeling pretty horny. I have to admit it.”
    “Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.”
    “As I turn the corner, starin' in your cornea / You're gettin' hornier and hornier”
    “It’s something of a cliché, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually horny; what it actually does is make you want to touch as much flesh as you can get your hands on.”
  5. (slang)Sexually arousing; pornographic.
    “It's hard to find good fanart of this character because most of the drawings are super horny.”
    “Mark Corrigan: She [the dentist] should have to wear a mask for this kind of thing. Reagan or Batman or... actually she'd look pretty horny as Batman... Jesus, no, don't!”
  6. Of a person, with an erect penis due to being aroused.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English horny, equivalent to horn + -y. Compare German hornig. Compare also Dutch hoornachtig, Swedish hornaktig, Old English hyrniġ (“angular”). Piecewise doublet of corny.

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