Crossword clues for horny
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horny \Horn"y\, a. [Compar. Hornier; superl. Horniest.]
Having horns or hornlike projections.
--Gay.Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn. ``The horny . . . coat of the eye.''
--Ray.Hard; callous. ``His horny fist.''
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"lustful, sexually aroused," definitely in use 1889, perhaps attested as early as 1863; from late 18c. slang expression to have the horn, suggestive of male sexual excitement (but eventually applied to women as well); see horn (n.).
Wiktionary
a. 1 hard or bony, like an animal's horn. 2 Having horns 3 (context informal vulgar English) Sexually aroused.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Horny may refer to:
- Sexual arousal
- Horn (anatomy)
- Epimedium, also known as "horny goat weed"
- Hornyhead chub, a North American freshwater fish
- Horned lizard, also known as "horny toad" or "horned frog"
- Horny layer of skin
- Horny, a character in the game The Adventures of Willy Beamish
- The horned reaper, a character from the games Dungeon Keeper and Dungeon Keeper 2
"Horny" is a song co-written and recorded by British R&B and hip hop musical recording artist Mark Morrison. It was released in December 1996 as the sixth single from the album Return of the Mack.
The song reached number five in the UK Singles Chart.
"Horny" is the fourth single released by OPM, taken from the album ForThemAsses. It was released on Suburban Noize Records in 2005.
Usage examples of "horny".
The upper part of the mouth of the cetacean was, indeed, provided on both sides with eight hundred horny blades, very elastic, of a fibrous texture, and fringed at the edge like great combs, at which the teeth, six feet long, served to retain the thousands of animalculae, little fish, and molluscs, on which the whale fed.
These are extremely various in character and form, being globose, cylindrical, columnar or flattened into leafy expansions or thick joint-like divisions, the surface being either ribbed like a melon, or developed into nipple-like protuberances, or variously angular, but in the greater number of the species furnished copiously with tufts of horny spines, some of which are exceedingly keen and powerful.
Out near the horizon on her right side, a dustcloud rose where forty-four hitches of grubbers were plowing their horny snouts along, breaking up the earth so the seeders they pulled could drop their load into the furrows.
She was still horny even though Jebel never failed to satisfy her physical needs.
Horny and worried about scorpions, Kyte chased sleep without ever catching it.
Nathan Pilger, hunched up on a low, irregular hummock against the picket-fence, made a speaking-trumpet of his two horny hands, and pretended to hail him as he passed.
These Telks spat something into their horny hands and spunged them at the foe-objects which even the raging hillmen avoided.
Their mournful hooting, made with inflatable skin sacs on their great horny snouts, echoed from the walls of ice to the south.
In ainhum there is, first, simple hypertrophy, then active hyperplasia The papillae degenerate when deprived of blood supply, and become horny.
Earth there were mollusks with great horny feet which could be fitted into grooves such as Brewster saw here on the immense spiral which fell away beneath him.
Sheldon Morgenstern, whose father was a cantor and whose mother had wanted her son to become a CPA, subtly undergoes a sea-change from publicity man for the great Stag Preston to pimp for the great, horny Stag Preston.
The roughened, external surface of the predentary and the front portion of the upper jaw are an indication of a once-present horny bill in front of the snout.
The Micco tried to draw smoke from his long-stemmed pipe, failed, and after exploring the bowl with a horny forefinger, dumped the ash into the fire pit, then began to restuff the bowl with more of the homegrown, home-cured leaf.
Micco tried to draw smoke from his long-stemmed pipe, failed, and after exploring the bowl with a horny forefinger, dumped the ash into the firepit, then began to restuff the bowl with more of the home-grown, home-cured leaf.
Along with them were plantains, starchy large bananas, and misshapen tomatoes with horny skins.