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comparative more hornily · superlative most hornily
- In a horny manner.
2009, Lee Montgomery, Tony Perez (editors), The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House, Tin House Books, page 18, She had an affinity for world music and one day she sashayed hornily into her neighborhood recorded-music store […] .
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Bobby has at length ceased to offer me every object which it devolves upon him to hand me, with a quavering voice and a prolonged stammer, since, though I was at first excellently vulnerable by this weapon of offence, I am now becoming hornily hard and indifferent to it.
1878, Rhoda Broughton, Nancy, 6th edition, Richard Bentley and Son, published 1873, page 140The officers look over at her hornily, before realising that she has a bazooka (and that is not a euphemism), which she utilises to fire a giant missile at them (after 'reading the instructions').
2021, John Rain, Explodobook, unnumbered page
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