horn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hôn
ipa: /hɔːn/
enpr: hôrn
ipa: /hɔɹn/
note: Dublin, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈhɒːɹn/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈhoːrn/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈhoːɻn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: horns
form: horning
form: horned
form: horned
Etymology: From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”). Doublet of corn (“callus”), corno, and cornu.
(telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.
Senses: glosses: To assault with the horns.
raw_tags: of an animal
glosses: To furnish with horns.
glosses: To cuckold.
examples: , His Precious Gem
He horned five times but the man didn't moved his car away.
glosses: To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk.
Derived terms: acoustic horn
air horn
airhorn
Alpine horn
alto horn
Amalthea's horn
Ammon's horn
around the horn
baritone horn
basset horn
bass horn
bastard horn snake
behorn
bighorn
Big Horn County
blow horn
blow-horn
blowhorn
blow one's horn
blow one's own horn
buckhorn
buck's-horn
buck's horn plantain
bulb horn
bull-horn
bullhorn
bull horn
butterhorn
chemical horn
chrome horn
clown horn
coach horn
collery horn
cream horn
deerhorn
deer horn knife
dehorn
demihorn
dishorn
Dorset Horn
drinking horn
drinking-horn
earhorn
elkhorn
English horn
feed horn
feed-horn
feedhorn
fire alarm horn
fish-horn
fish horn
flowerhorn
fog horn
foghorn
fog-horn
French horn
gate of horn
Golden Horn
grunt-horn
hartshorn
horn angle
horn antenna
hornbag
hornball
hornbeak
hornbeam
horn-bearing
hornbill
hornblower
Hornblower
hornbook
hornbug
horn coral
horncore
horn dog
horn-dog
horn drum
horned
horner
horn fly
hornfoot
hornful
hornguide
horn guide
horn-helmeted
hornification
horn in
hornish
hornist
hornless
hornlet
hornlike
horn-mad
horn mercury
Horn of Africa
horn of Amalthea
horn of plenty
Horn OK Please
horn out
hornowl
hornpike
horn pipe
hornpipe
horn-piper
horn piper
horn poppy
hornpout
hornpox
horn-rimmed
horn-rims
hornrims
horns and halo effect
horn shark
horn silver
horn slate
hornsman
hornsnake
hornstone
horntail
horn timber
horn tipper
horn violin
horn-violin
hornwork
hornworm
hornwort
hornwrack
horny
hunting-horn
iliac horn syndrome
inkhorn
knot-horn
lock horns
longhorn
longhorned
melodyhorn
nanohorn
obtuse horn shell
occipital horn syndrome
off the horn
on the horn
on the horns of a dilemma
oxhorn
party horn
paste-horn
Pinard horn
plenty's horn
post-horn
post horn
posthorn
powder horn
powderhorn
pronghorn
pull in one's horns
put to the horn
raghorn
ramshorn
ram's horn
ram's horn squid
remote horn
saddle horn
saddlehorn
saxhorn
shoe-horn
shoehorn
shoeing-horn
shorthorn
slug-horn
snuff-horn
spikehorn
stadium horn
staghorn
stag's horn
stag's-horn clubmoss
stinkhorn
straighthorn
switch horn
take a horn
take the bull by the horns
tenor horn
tinhorn
tin-horn
toot one's own horn
uterine horn
Vienna horn
Viennese horn
Vladimir horn
war-horn
war horn
yellowhorn