horny en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈhoɹni/ (General-American)
- /ˈhɔːni/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Southern-England) audio
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.
Meanings
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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.
1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998, Chapter 6:
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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.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
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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.
2006 January 14, Karen M. Dvornich, “Short-horned Lizard”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 28 Oct 2010:
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(slang) Sexually aroused.
[H]er thick, gurgling voice saying […]: "Get it in all the way… please, please do… I’m horny."
1949, Henry Miller, Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion), Grove Press, published 1965, →ISBN, page 104:As I turn the corner, starin' in your cornea / You're gettin' hornier and hornier
1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J:“Sad gay men are objectively just the horniest people in the world,” Morrison says, citing a conversation with his therapist who assured him the combination of feelings is totally natural.
2023 January 23, Naveen Kumar, “‘Sugar Daddy’ Review: The Grief Comes Out in Laughs”, in The New York Times: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.
1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 82:But this much can be said with surety: Hollywood is hornier than it has been in years.
2024 April 28, Brooks Barnes, “After Period of Chastity, Hollywood Movies Embrace Sex Again”, in The New York Times: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.
2014, David Burr Gerrard, Short Century“Mrs. Fletcher,” the HBO mini-series about a middle-aged woman’s sexual reawakening, showcases a horny mom who can’t stop masturbating to pornography.
2019 December 13, Tracie Egan Morrissey, “The Year Women Got ‘Horny’”, in The New York Times:Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.
1971 October, Black World, page 65/1:
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(slang) Sexually exciting; arousing.
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!
2003, Peep Show (TV series), Funeral (episode)It's hard to find good fanart of this character because most of the drawings are super horny.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| horniest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| hornier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
hornily · horngry · semihorny · Horny Tim's · ultra-horny · hornyhead · horniness · horny-handedness · horny jail · hornypost · horny toad · vorny · horny goat weed · hornify · horny-handedly · horny on main · superhorny · unhorny · horny-handed
Descendants
Synonyms
rutty · sexed up · desirable · fappable · delicious · venereal · corny · wanton · shaggable · doable · salacious · frisky · dreamy · lusty · callous · aroused · lickerish · sexy · peng · lascivious · concupiscent · ravenous · thirsty · fine · fuckable · arousing · excited · lewd · hittable · provocative · sexalicious · bonerific · hot to trot · bonable · coarse · lustful · bedworthy · attractive · toey · fuckish · drippy · in heat · ablaze · turned on · toey as a Roman sandal · unchaste · horned · ruttish · buff · effable · bangable · prurient · toothsome · horny · rootable · fanciable · beddable · sensual · raunchy · beautiful · flustered · hardened · screwable · gorgeous · humpable · lustful · seductive · rough · DTF · buckish · hot · desirous · horned up · impure · lusty · in heat · ceratose · toey · fapworthy · gagging for it · tasty · horny · alluring · randy · fit · swoonsome · thirsty · randy · hot and bothered · libidinous · hot · sexable · venereous · amorous · stimulated
Translations (169)
fi kiimainen (sexually aroused) · it arrapato (sexually aroused) · cs nadržený (sexually aroused) · ga téisiúil (sexually arousing) · mk во́збуден (sexually aroused) · de gehörnt (having horns) · pt com tesão (sexually aroused) · fo graður (sexually aroused) · bg рогов (hard or bony) · da kåd (sexually aroused) · kl tiingavoq (sexually aroused) · bg възбуден (sexually aroused) · gl saído (sexually aroused) · bg мазолест (hard or bony) · bg надървен (sexually aroused) · ja むらむら (sexually aroused) · mk ро́жен (hard or bony) · de heiß (sexually aroused) · pt excitado (sexually aroused) · fi kiihottunut (sexually aroused) · fa حشری (sexually aroused) · th เงี่ยน (sexually aroused) · eo voluptema (sexually aroused) · es alzado (sexually aroused) · he חרמן (sexually aroused) · ca calent (sexually aroused) · es córneo (hard or bony) · ga mealltach (sexually arousing) · ru рога́тый (having horns) · wa coirnou (having horns) · sk nadržaný (sexually aroused) · tl tigáng (sexually aroused) · ja 性的興奮 (sexually aroused) · grc ἀσελγής (sexually aroused) · fr excité (sexually aroused) · mk по́пален (sexually aroused) · sh напаљен (sexually aroused) · hu kérges (hard or bony) · vi cứng (hard or bony) · sh nadražen (sexually aroused) · nl gehoornd (having horns) · nl hoornig (hard or bony) · ka რქიანი (having horns) · pl rogowy (hard or bony) · pt chifrudo (having horns) · ga adharcach (sexually aroused) · grc μάργος (sexually aroused) · pl rogaty (having horns) · nl opgewonden (sexually aroused) · hu kanos (sexually aroused) · ro în călduri (sexually aroused) · nb benete (hard or bony) · tr azgın (sexually aroused) · nn paringshuga (sexually aroused) · mk за́пален (sexually aroused) · hu begerjedt (sexually aroused) · ca corni (hard or bony) · sl potrében (sexually aroused) · it corneo (hard or bony) · vi cương (sexually aroused) · da behornet (having horns) · id bertanduk (having horns) · es excitado (sexually aroused) · de spitz (sexually aroused) · de hornig (hard or bony) · da liderlig (sexually aroused) · id gatal (sexually aroused) · hu szarvas (having horns) · es caliente (sexually aroused) · sv behornad (having horns) · cmn 騷 /骚 (sexually aroused) · ru рогово́й (hard or bony) · nn brunstig (sexually aroused) · ka გამაგრებული (hard or bony) · fo gessigur (sexually aroused) · ang wrǣne (sexually aroused) · es arrecho (sexually aroused) · nb sexy (sexually arousing) · cs rohovitý (hard or bony) · sh narajcan (sexually aroused) · pl zrogowaciały (hard or bony) · mk ро́гов (hard or bony) · ga gnéasach (sexually arousing) · pl napalony (sexually aroused) · id sange (sexually aroused) · sv tänd (sexually aroused) · el καυλωμένος (sexually aroused) · hi कामोत्तेजित (sexually aroused) · nb tent (sexually aroused) · he חרמנית (sexually aroused) · zlw-osk jurný (sexually aroused) · it eccitato (sexually aroused) · tl libóg (sexually aroused) · hi उत्तेजित (sexually aroused) · pt caloso (hard or bony) · sh rogat (having horns) · da fræk (sexually arousing) · mk на́пален (sexually aroused) · cs rohatý (having horns) · vi nứng (sexually aroused) · fr cornu (having horns) · nb opphissende (sexually arousing) · de rollig (sexually aroused) · es cachondo (sexually aroused) · ka აღგზნებული (sexually aroused) · de erregt (sexually aroused) · sq brinor (hard or bony) · nn kåt (sexually aroused) · fr corné (hard or bony) · hu felizgult (sexually aroused) · mk тврд (hard or bony) · nb hornaktig (hard or bony) · nl stijf (hard or bony) · la libīdinōsus (sexually aroused) · mk ро́гат (having horns) · nb hard (hard or bony) · hy գրգռված (sexually aroused) · de schwielig (hard or bony) · ru мозо́листый (hard or bony) · sv kåt (sexually aroused) · sh napaljen (sexually aroused) · nl geil (sexually aroused) · it infoiato (sexually aroused) · ga áilíosach (sexually aroused) · ka რქოსანი (having horns) · is graður (sexually aroused) · it cornuto (having horns) · nb pirrende (sexually arousing) · es calenturiento (sexually aroused) · az yanıq (sexually aroused) · tr abazan (sexually aroused) · gd drùiseil (sexually aroused) · de geil (sexually arousing) · nb hornete (having horns) · grc ὑβριστικός (sexually aroused) · fi luinen (hard or bony) · pt córneo (hard or bony) · cmn 角質 /角质 (having horns) · de geil (sexually aroused) · hu izgató (sexually arousing) · es jodontón (sexually aroused) · ms stim (sexually aroused) · ro excitat (sexually aroused) · fr chaud (sexually aroused) · nb kåt (sexually aroused) · el κεράτινος (hard or bony) · hy ղզղնած (sexually aroused) · ru возбуждённый (sexually aroused) · nn gra (sexually aroused) · ms gatal (sexually aroused) · sh uzbudjen (sexually aroused) · hu szarus (hard or bony) · ga macnasach (sexually aroused) · ar أَقْرَن (having horns) · sw nyege (sexually aroused) · fa شهوتی (sexually aroused) · sq epshor (sexually aroused) · th เสี้ยน (sexually aroused) · pt calejado (hard or bony) · af jags (sexually aroused) · fi panettaa (sexually aroused) · fi sarvekas (having horns) · tr boynuzlu (having horns) · wa coirnixheus (hard or bony) · tl nalilibugan (sexually aroused) · la lascīvus (sexually aroused) · bg рогат (having horns) · eo amorema (sexually aroused) · nb karsk (sexually aroused)