Horny
adj, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 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 Sexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire. slang
"[H]er thick, gurgling voice saying […]: "Get it in all the way… please, please do… I’m horny.""
- 3 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."
- 4 Sexually arousing; pornographic. slang
"It's hard to find good fanart of this character because most of the drawings are super horny."
- 5 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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- 6 With an erect penis due to being aroused. obsolete
- 1 made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) wordnet
- 2 having horns or hornlike projections wordnet
- 3 feeling great sexual desire wordnet
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More examples""Never mind that, what's with that get up ... a swimming suit!?" "That's right. Sexy isn't it? Feeling horny?""
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.
From the horn (“an erect penis”) + -y (“having the quality of”). The adjective originally meant "erect", but was later was broadened to refer not only to sexual arousal but also to sexual desire in general.