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hornify

hornify verb: to make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden.

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.
    • We see in Figure 8 that the hornified cuticle runs continuously over the cementum […]1930, The Journal of the American Dental Association: Volume 17
  2. (colloquial, transitive) To make horny; to excite sexually; to arouse.
    • 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[…]2005, Jeff Harris, Fay and Eddy, page 88
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To horn; to cuckold.
    • My Wife has hornified me.c. 1608–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, “Four Playes, or Morall Representations, in One”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published...

Forms of hornify

third-person singular presenthornifies
present participlehornifying
past participlehornified
pasthornified

Origin of hornify

From horny + -fy and/or horn + -ify.

Questions about hornify

What does hornify mean?
Hornify means to make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden.
What part of speech is hornify?
Hornify is a verb.
What is the past tense of hornify?
The past tense of hornify is hornified.

Words near hornify in the dictionary

  1. horniest
  2. hornification
  3. hornifications
  4. hornified
  5. hornifies
  6. hornify
  7. hornifying
  8. Hornigold
  9. hornily
  10. horniness
  11. horning

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