English Explanatory Dictionary

horny

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
  2. Having the hard consistency and pale colour of an animal's horn.
  3. Having horns.
adj
  1. Sexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire.
  2. Sexually arousing; pornographic.
  3. Of a person, with an erect penis due to being aroused.

Pronunciation

/ˈhɔːni/ /ˈhoɹni/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-horny.wav

Word forms

horny hornier horniest

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.

Synonyms

callous coarse hardened rough ceratose horned horned up lustful lusty randy toey in heat thirsty alluring arousing attractive bangable beautiful beddable bedworthy bonable bonerific buff delicious desirable doable dreamy effable fanciable fappable fapworthy fine fit fuckable gorgeous hittable horny hot humpable peng provocative raunchy rootable salacious screwable seductive sensual sexable sexalicious sexy shaggable swoonsome tasty toothsome erect hard

Derived words

hornify hornyhead horngry horny goat weed horny-handed horny-handedly horny-handedness horny jail hornypost Horny Tim's horny toad semihorny superhorny ultra-horny unhorny vorny horniness hornily
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