horny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːni/
ipa: /ˈhoɹni/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ni
Forms: form: hornier
form: horniest
Etymology: From the phrase "having the horn", and similar phrases which were used to refer to male sexual arousal in the 18th century, later abbreviated to horn (a hard projection) + -y (having the quality of); initially this referred to physical sexual response in males (the male erection being analogized as a "horn"), yet later was semantically generalized to refer not only to sexual arousal but also to sexual desire in both males and females.
Senses: examples: text: [H]er thick, gurgling voice saying […]: "Get it in all the way… please, please do… I’m horny."
ref: 1949, Henry Miller, Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion), Grove Press, published 1965, →ISBN, page 104:
text: 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.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 82:
text: Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.
ref: 1971 October, Black World, page 65/1:
text: As I turn the corner, starin' in your cornea / You're gettin' hornier and hornier
ref: 1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J:
text: 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.
ref: 2014, David Burr Gerrard, Short Century
text: “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.
ref: 2019 December 13, Tracie Egan Morrissey, “The Year Women Got ‘Horny’”, in The New York Times:
text: “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.
ref: 2023 January 23, Naveen Kumar, “‘Sugar Daddy’ Review: The Grief Comes Out in Laughs”, in The New York Times:
text: But this much can be said with surety: Hollywood is hornier than it has been in years.
ref: 2024 April 28, Brooks Barnes, “After Period of Chastity, Hollywood Movies Embrace Sex Again”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: horned up
word: lustful
word: lusty
word: randy
word: toey
word: in heat
word: thirsty
word: ablaze
word: amorous
word: aroused
word: buckish
word: concupiscent
word: desirous
word: DTF
word: excited
word: frisky
word: fuckish
word: gagging for it
word: hard
word: horny
word: hot
word: hot and bothered
word: hot to trot
word: in heat
word: lascivious
word: lewd
word: libidinous
word: lickerish
word: lustful
word: lusty
word: prurient
word: randy
word: ravenous
word: rock hard
word: ruttish
word: rutty
word: sexed up
word: stimulated
word: thirsty
word: toey
word: toey as a Roman sandal
word: turned on
word: unchaste
word: venereal
word: venereous
word: wanton
glosses: Sexually aroused, with or without physical manifestation; experiencing a feeling of sexual desire.
examples: text: 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!
ref: 2003, Peep Show (TV series), Funeral (episode)
synonyms: word: alluring
word: arousing
word: attractive
word: bangable
word: beautiful
word: beddable
word: bedworthy
word: bonable
word: bonerific
word: buff
word: delicious
word: desirable
word: doable
word: dreamy
word: effable
word: fanciable
word: fappable
word: fapworthy
word: fine
word: fit
word: fuckable
word: gorgeous
word: hittable
word: horny
word: hot
word: humpable
word: peng
word: provocative
word: raunchy
word: rootable
word: salacious
word: screwable
word: seductive
word: sensual
word: sexable
word: sexalicious
word: sexy
word: shaggable
word: swoonsome
word: tasty
word: toothsome
glosses: Sexually arousing.
synonyms: erect
excited
hard
glosses: In a state of physical sexual arousal: experiencing tentigo, tumescence of the penis as a result of sexual arousal.
raw_tags: of males
Derived terms: sense: sexually aroused
word: horniness
sense: sexually aroused
word: hornily
word: horngry
word: hornify
word: horny goat weed
word: horny-handed
word: horny-handedly
word: horny-handedness
word: horny jail
word: hornypost
word: Horny Tim's
word: horny toad
word: semihorny
word: superhorny
word: ultra-horny
word: unhorny
word: vorny