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Horny   /hˈɔrni/   Listen
Horny

adjective
(compar. hornier; superl. horniest)
1.
Feeling great sexual desire.  Synonyms: aroused, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on.
2.
Having horns or hornlike projections.  "Horny (or horned) frog"
3.
Made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn).  Synonyms: corneous, hornlike.



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"Horny" Quotes from Famous Books



... akin to the lizards, the cold-blooded life of Earth? Was this rocky exterior merely a horny shell like that of a turtle? No. Horn is horn and rock is rock. The two can't ...
— The Planetoid of Peril • Paul Ernst
... regards the perianth, with 6-9 sterile stamens. Carpels formed of 5 ovaries, free, unilocular, containing one ovule each. Fruit, a drupe of a purple color, the size of a filbert, kidney-shaped, the albumen horny. ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera
... OF THE SKIN. 1. A hair. Notice there is a deep depression of the surface to form a small bulb from which the hair grows. 2. The superficial or horny layer of the skin; the cells here are joined to form a dense, smooth, compact layer impervious to moisture. 3. The lower layer of cells. In this layer new cells are continually being formed to supply those which as thin scales are cast off from the surface. ...
— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman
... easy as it sounded, for all through the big rooms was scaffolds and ladders and a dozen or more original members of the Overalls Club splashin' mortar and paint around. I was glancin' at these horny-handed sons of toil sort of casual when all of a sudden I spots one guy in a well-daubed suit of near-white ducks who looks strangely familiar. Walkin' up to the step-ladder for a closer view I has to stop and let out ...
— Torchy As A Pa • Sewell Ford
... which has not been acted on by light to swell up in lukewarm water, and to become tacky, so that in this condition it can retain powdered color which had been dusted on it. Wherever, however, the chromated gelatine has been acted on by light, the surface becomes horny, undergoes no change in warm water, and loses all sign of tackiness. In this process absolute opacity in the lines of the original drawing is by no means necessary, for it reproduces gray, half-tone lines just as well as it does black ones. Pencil drawings ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 286 - June 25, 1881 • Various


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