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Webster 1913 Edition


Hornify

Horn′i-fy

,
Verb.
T.
[
Horn
+
-fy
.]
To horn; to cuckold.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.

Webster 1828 Edition


Hornify

HORN'IFY

,
Verb.
T.
To bestow horns upon. [Not used or vulgar.]

Definition 2024


hornify

hornify

English

Verb

hornify (third-person singular simple present hornifies, present participle hornifying, simple past and past participle hornified)

  1. (transitive) To make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden.
    • 1930, The Journal of the American Dental Association: Volume 17
      We see in Figure 8 that the hornified cuticle runs continuously over the cementum []
  2. (transitive, colloquial) To make horny; to excite sexually; to arouse.
    • 2005, Jeff Harris, Fay and Eddy (page 88)
      The air and the water hornified him. Then he met her. The sun was making her horny, and the sunset got her horny, and the moon, and the trees and the birds, they all got her horny []
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To horn; to cuckold.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)