horny

CEFRC2

/ˈhɔːni/

adjective

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Feeling sexually excited or wanting sexual activity.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Having horns.

Examples

  • He only calls her when he's feeling horny.

  • Why is nobody around when I'm horny?

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈhoɹni/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Having the hard consistency and pale colour of an animal's horn.

  2. Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.

  3. Sexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire.

More examples

In context

  • 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!

  • She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film.

Synonyms

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Origin

adjective

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.