Meaning of horsy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of, relating to, or similar to horses.
2. Involved in breeding or riding horses.
3. Clumsy, clunky, bulky, inelegant, or unrefined.

Equivalents

Examples

“All the horses had been seized and sent to the front, but the whole place still smelt of horse-piss and rotten oats. I was at the barracks about a week. Chiefly I remember the horsy smells, the quavering bugle-calls […]”

“Pirates, these women, with their ladylike briefcases for the loot and their horsy, acquisitive teeth.”

“Near-synonym: crude”

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