horny
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Definition of horny
6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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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
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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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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.”
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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.”
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(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.”
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(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!”
- 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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