English

A horny male Nubian ibex.

Adjective

horny ‎(comparative hornier, superlative horniest)

1. Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
   • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 6,

     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. 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." http://depts.washington.edu/natmap/projects/waterville/begin.html

3. (slang, vulgar) Sexually aroused.

   That girl makes me feel horny.

   • 1949, Henry Miller, Sexus:

     Her thick, gurgling voice saying...: "Get it in all the way... please, please do... I’m horny."

   • 1971 October, Black World, page 65/1:

     Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.

4. (informal) Sexually arousing.

Synonyms

• (hard or bony): callous, coarse, coarsened, hardened, rough
• (having horns): horned
• (sexually aroused): randy, toey, excited; see also Wikisaurus:randy
• See also Wikisaurus:sexy

Derived terms

• (sexually aroused): horniness

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