Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having horns or hornlike projections.
- adj. Made of horn or a similar substance.
- adj. Tough and calloused: horny skin.
- adj. Vulgar Slang Desirous of sexual activity.
- adj. Vulgar Slang Sexually aroused.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting or composed of horn, or something like horn; corneous.
- Resembling horn; hard or otherwise like horn; callous: as, horny hands.
- Specifically — In entomology, chitinous: used to designate any hard part of the integument or interior organs of an insect.
- In botany, hard and close in texture, but not brittle, as the albumen of many plants.
- In sponges, fibrous; ceratodous, as an ordinary sponge, as distinguished from a chalk-sponge or a glass-sponge.
- Having a horn or horns; having corns, callosities, or processes like horns.
- n. The devil, as usually represented with horns: generally with the prefix old (Scotch auld.) Also spelled Hornie.
Wiktionary
- adj. Hard or bony, like an animal’s horn.
- adj. Having horns
- adj. Sexually aroused.
- adj. Sexually arousing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having horns or hornlike projections.
- adj. Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn.
- adj. Hard; callous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. feeling great sexual desire
- adj. having horns or hornlike projections
- adj. made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn)
Etymologies
- Sense 4, from horn, an erection.
Examples
“It doesn't contain anything terribly offensive, though the premiere does mention the existence of sex between alligators and use the word "horny.”
“And the images you conjure with "straddling glowing globes and caressing the giant W" makes us sound so freakin 'horny ... oh wait ... nevermind.”
“I also wonder in how many cases people think that giving someone a pill that makes her horny is a lot easier than actually trying to, you know, like, find out what she likes.”
“The more superficial layers of cells, called the horny layer (stratum corneum), may be separated by maceration from a deeper stratum, which is called the stratum mucosum, and which consists of several layers of differently shaped cells.”
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 2. The Common Integument
“_ He was called horny because, when he slew the dragon, he bathed in its blood, and became covered with a horny hide which was invulnerable.”
“The men on her dating site, which weeds out the opportunists, "want me to make that distinction - they're tired of being called horny frat boys," she says.”
“This one in particular - courtesy commenter extraordinaire Upstate Underdog - will make you dance AND get you horny, which is one of my favorite states of consciousness.”
“I recall a horny looking young lady (the lady part of that descriptive I use very loosely for reasons explained later) who worked in our cookhouse for a while.”
“Dara are professional, at least until he goes and purchases something called horny goat weed from a local merchant.”
“Just one - Epimedium brevicornum, also known as horny goat weed and Bishop's Hat - had an effect.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘horny’.
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 315 more...
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Adjectives with 2 syllables that end in -y
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
jacqueline C'mon, how can I not like this word? 'nuff said. Mar 4, 2007