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Meaning of horny | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1 Standard
ˈhɔːni

Definitions

  1. hot, warm (emitting heat or warmth)
  2. Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
  3. Sexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire.
    slang
  4. hot (close to finding or guessing something)
  5. Having the hard consistency and pale colour of an animal's horn.
  6. Sexually arousing; pornographic.
    slang
  7. horny (sexually aroused)
  8. Having horns.
  9. With an erect penis due to being aroused.
    obsolete
  10. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
  11. third-person singular imperative

Equivalents

Afrikaans jags
العربية أقرن
Bosanski kad kat
Català calent corni
Čeština nadržený rohatý
Esperanto amorema voluptema
فارسی شهوتی
Français chaud corne cornu excité
Galego saído
עברית חרמן
हिन्दी उत्तेजित
Hrvatski kad kat
Հայերեն գրգռված ղզղնած
Bahasa Indonesia bertanduk gatal sange
Íslenska graður
Kurdî kat
Bahasa Melayu gatal
Nederlands gehoornd geil hoornig opgewonden stijf
Română excitat
Slovenščina potreben
Shqip brinor epshor
Српски kad kat
Svenska behornad kat tand
Kiswahili nyege
Tagalog libog tigang
Tiếng Việt cùng cương nứng

Examples

“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.”
“She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film.”
“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.”
“[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”
“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.”
““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.”
““Sad gay men are objectively just the horniest people in the world,” Morrison says, citing a conversation with his therapist who assured him the combination of feelings is totally natural.”
“But this much can be said with surety: Hollywood is hornier than it has been in years.”
“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!”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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