HORNY | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of horny in English hornyadjective uk /ˈhɔː.ni/ us /ˈhɔːr.ni/

horny adjective (SEXUAL)

Add to word list Add to word list informal sexually excited: feel horny She'd had a couple of drinks and was feeling horny.horny devil You horny devil!horny goat He really was a horny old goat (= a man who is very sexually active). UK informal sexually attractive: look horny You look horny in that skirt.

horny adjective (HARD)

made of a hard substance, like horn: horny beak Birds have horny beaks. (especially of skin) hard and rough: horny skin Keratosis is a skin condition marked by an overgrowth of layers of horny skin. Hard and firm

• (as) stiff/straight as a ramrod idiom
• adamantine
• cast iron
• congealed
• crisply
• dilatancy
• dilatant
• erect
• firm
• firmness
• fossilized
• ossified
• petrified
• ramrod
• rigid
• rigidity
• solidly
• temper
• unjointed
• unyielding

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Rough, irregular and uneven Skin complaints & blemishes (Definition of horny from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

horny | American Dictionary

hornyadjective us /ˈhɔr·ni/ Add to word list Add to word list consisting of, or feeling hard like horn: Birds have horny beaks. (Definition of horny from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of horny?

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in Chinese (Traditional) 性慾的, 慾火中燒的，性興奮的, 性感的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 性欲的, 欲火中烧的，性兴奋的, 性感的… See more in Spanish caliente, cachondo, sexy… See more in Portuguese com tesão, como chifre, excitado… See more in French in Turkish in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Ukrainian cornu, corné, calleux… See more boynuz gibi, boynuz gibi sert, şehvetli… See more hoornig, geil… See more rohovitý, mozolnatý, nadržený… See more hornagtig, hornet, barket… See more seperti tanduk, keras, mudah terangsang… See more คล้ายเขาสัตว์, เหมือนเขาสัตว์, ตื่นตัวทางเพศ… See more bằng sừng, cứng như sừng, chai tay… See more rogowaty, zrogowaciały, chętny… See more hornartad, valkig, hård… See more seperti tanduk, sekeras tanduk, berahi… See more hornig, schwielig, geil… See more hornaktig, horn-, barket… See more роговий, мозолистий, збуджений… See more Need a translator?

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