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horny

/ˈhɔːni/US/ˈhoɹni/

horny adjective: hard or bony, like an animal's horn.

horny: hard or bony, like an animal's horn
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Adjective

horny (comparative hornier, superlative horniest)

  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.1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998, Chapter 6
  2. 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.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    ceratose
  3. 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.2006 January, Karen M. Dvornich, “Short-horned Lizard”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 28 Oct 2010
    Synonyms:
    horned
  4. (slang) Sexually aroused.
    • [H]er thick, gurgling voice saying […]: "Get it in all the way… please, please do… I’m horny."1949, Henry Miller, Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion), Grove Press, published 1965, →ISBN, page 104
    • After a while I sat down in a chair and smoked a couple of cigarettes. I was feeling pretty horny. I have to admit it.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 82
  5. (slang) Sexually exciting; arousing.
    • It's hard to find good fanart of this character because most of the drawings are super horny.
    • Mark Corrigan: She [the dentist] should have to wear a mask for this kind of thing. Reagan or Batman or... actually she'd look pretty horny as Batman... Jesus, no, don't!2003, Peep Show (TV series), Funeral (episode)

Noun

horny (plural hornies)

  1. (archaic, slang) A policeman.
    • Can't blame them after all with the job they have especially the young hornies.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 8: Laestrygonians]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 155
  2. (Australia, Scotland, slang) A cow.

horny meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

horny in Hindi

sexually aroused
कामोत्तेजित kāmottejit, उत्तेजित uttejit

horny in Tamil

கொம்புப்பொருளுள்ள

horny in Marathi

शिंग्या, शिंगडाळी

horny in Urdu

horny
ٹھرکی ṭharkī
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horny in Bengali
শৃঙ্গাকার, পশুশৃঙ্গ দ্বারা নির্মিত
horny in Malayalam
കൊമ്പുപോലുള്ള, കാമാസക്തിയുള്ള, കഠിനമായ
horny in Kannada
ಗಡುಸಾಗಿರುವ, ಜಡ್ಡುಕಟ್ಟಿದ
horny in Gujarati
શિંગડાંવાળું
horny in Odia
ଶୃଙ୍ଗାକାର
horny in Nepali
होर्नी
horny in Tagalog
nalilibugan, libóg, tigáng
horny in Arabic
أَقْرَن ʔaqran
horny in Malay
gatal, stim
horny in Indonesian
bertanduk, sange, gatal
horny in Persian
شهوتی šahvati, حشری hašari
horny in Thai
เงี่ยน ngîian, เสี้ยน sîian
horny in Vietnamese
cứng, nứng, cương

Examples of horny in a sentence

  • Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.1971 October, Black World, page 65/1:
  • It’s something of a cliché, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually horny; what it actually does is make you want to touch as much flesh as you can get your hands on.2014, David Burr Gerrard, Short Century
  • Fletcher,” the HBO mini-series about a middle-aged woman’s sexual reawakening, showcases a horny mom who can’t stop masturbating to pornography.2019 December 13, Tracie Egan Morrissey, “The Year Women Got ‘Horny’”, in The New York Times:

Synonyms of horny

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Forms of horny

Adjective
comparativehornier
superlativehorniest
Noun
pluralhornies

Origin of horny

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.

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Words that rhyme with horny

Questions about horny

What does horny mean?
Horny means hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
What is horny in Hindi?
Horny in Hindi is कामोत्तेजित (kāmottejit), उत्तेजित (uttejit). See Horny meaning in Hindi.
How do you use horny in a sentence?
Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.
What part of speech is horny?
Horny can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce horny?
Horny is pronounced /ˈhɔːni/ (UK).

Words near horny in the dictionary

  1. hornworms
  2. hornwort
  3. hornworts
  4. hornwrack
  5. hornwracks
  6. horny
  7. horny goat weed
  8. horny jail
  9. horny on main
  10. Horny Tim's
  11. horny toad

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: horny (page history and authors); horny (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horny (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ٹھرکی (Urdu) (page history and authors); horny (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horny (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horny (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horny (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); horny (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); horny (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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