horny
AdjektivAdjektivhäufig in Dialogen
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈhɔːni//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈhoɹni//
Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
Adjektiv
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Herkunft
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.
Adjektiv
- 1
SlangSexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire.
[H]er thick, gurgling voice saying […]: "Get it in all the way… please, please do… I’m horny."
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.
Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.
As I turn the corner, starin' in your cornea / You're gettin' hornier and hornier
- 2
SlangSexually arousing; pornographic.
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!
- 3
Of a person, with an erect penis due to being aroused.
Herkunft
From the horn (“an erect penis”) + -y (“having the quality of”). The adjective originally meant "erect", but was later was broadened to refer not only to sexual arousal but also to sexual desire in general.
Formen
- Komparativ
- hornier
- Superlativ
- horniest