All the horses had been seized and sent to the front, but the whole place still smelt of horse-piss and rotten oats. I was at the barracks about a week. Chiefly I remember the horsy smells, the quavering bugle-calls […]
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Horsy
//ˈhɔːsi//
Synonyms for "horsy" (33 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (16)
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Translations
29 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- конен adj (of or relating to horses)
- конски adj (of or relating to horses)
Czech
1 entries- koňský adj (of or relating to horses)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĉevala adj (of or relating to horses)
Finnish
3 entries- hevos adj (of or relating to horses)
- hevosmainen adj (of or relating to horses)
- heppa noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
French
2 entries- chevalin adj (of or relating to horses)
- dada noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
German
3 entries- Pferd adj (of or relating to horses)
- pferdisch adj (of or relating to horses)
- Pferdchen noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
Hungarian
1 entries- paci noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
Ido
1 entries- kavalala adj (of or relating to horses)
Japanese
1 entries- お馬さん noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
Latvian
1 entries- zirdziņš noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
Polish
2 entries- koński adj (of or relating to horses)
- konik noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
Portuguese
1 entries- cavalinho noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
Russian
4 entries- ко́нский adj (of or relating to horses)
- лошади́ный adj (of or relating to horses)
- конёк noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
- лоша́дка noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
Spanish
3 entries- caballar adj (of or relating to horses)
- caballuno adj (of or relating to horses)
- caballito noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
Swedish
1 entries- rida häst noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ко́ник noun (a child's term or name for a horse)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿערדיש adj (of or relating to horses)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Pirates, these women, with their ladylike briefcases for the loot and their horsy, acquisitive teeth.
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Near-synonym: crude
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When he got in the house, if I'd left him to read his newspaper in quiet, then he'd play horsey with me, riding me around the house on his back; I'd put a pillow on his back for my saddle
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