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

   Synonyms: callous, coarse, hardened, rough

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 28, 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. slangSexually aroused.

   Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.

   1971 October, Black World, page 65/1

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   [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

   As I turn the corner, starin' in your cornea / You're gettin' hornier and hornier

   1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J

   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

   “Mrs. 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: horned up, lustful, lusty, randy, toey, in heat, thirsty, ablaze

5. slangSexually exciting; arousing.

   It's hard to find good fanart of this character because most of the drawings are super horny.

   1 more example

   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)

   Synonyms: alluring, arousing, attractive, bangable, beautiful, beddable, bedworthy, bonable

plural hornies

1. archaicslangA 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. AustraliaScotlandslangA cow.