horny

See also: horný and hôrny

English

A horny male Nubian ibex.

Etymology

From Middle English horny, equivalent to horn +‎ -y. Compare German hornig. Compare also Dutch hoornachtig, Swedish hornaktig, Old English hyrniġ (“angular”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔ.ni/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔɹ.ni/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ni

Adjective

horny (comparative hornier, superlative horniest)

Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
Synonyms: callous, coarse, hardened, rough
- Template:quot-book
Having the hard consistency and pale colour of an animal's horn.
Synonym: ceratose(en, biology)
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
  She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film.
Having horns.
Synonym: horned
- 2023 February 25, Karen M. Dvornich, “Short-horned Lizard”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, archived from the original on 2010-10-28:
  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.
(slang, informal) Sexually aroused.
Synonyms: randy, toey, in heat, excited; see also Thesaurus:randy
- 1949, Henry Miller, Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion), Grove Press, published 1965, →ISBN, page 104:
  [H]er thick, gurgling voice saying […] : "Get it in all the way… please, please do… I’m horny."
- 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 287628, page 82:
  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.
- 1971 October, Black World, page 65/1:
  Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.
- 1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J:
  As I turn the corner, starin' in your cornea / You're gettin' hornier and hornier
- 2019 December 13, Tracie Egan Morrissey, “The Year Women Got ‘Horny’”, in New York Times‎:
  “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.
(slang, informal) Sexually arousing.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sexy
- 2003, Peep Show (TV series), Funeral (episode)
  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!

Derived terms

(sexually aroused): horniness, hornily

horny goat weed
horny-handed
horny-handedly
horny-handedness
horny jail
Horny Tim's
ultra-horny

Descendants

(sexually aroused): → Irish: adharcach (semantic loan)
(sexually aroused): → Russian: хорни (xorni)
(sexually aroused): → Saterland Frisian: honig

Translations

hard or bony

Albanian: brinor (sq)
Bulgarian: рогов (rogov), мазолест (mazolest)
Catalan: corni (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 粗硬的 (cū yìng de)
Czech: rohovitý
Dutch: hoornig (nl)
Finnish: luinen (fi)
French: corné (fr)
Georgian: გამაგრებული (gamagrebuli)
German: hornig, schwielig (de)
Greek: κεράτινος (el) (kerátinos)
Hungarian: szarus, kérges (hu)
Italian: corneo (it)
Macedonian: рогат (rogat)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hard, benete, hornaktig
Polish: rogowy (pl), zrogowaciały
Portuguese: caloso, calejado (pt), córneo (pt)
Russian: рогово́й (ru) (rogovój), мозо́листый (ru) (mozólistyj)
Spanish: córneo (es)
Walloon: coirnixheus (wa)

having horns

Bulgarian: рогат (rogat)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 角質／角质 (zh) (jiǎozhì)
Czech: rohatý (cs)
Danish: behornet
Dutch: gehoornd (nl)
Finnish: sarvekas (fi)
French: cornu (fr)
Georgian: რქიანი (rkiani), რქოსანი (rkosani)
German: gehörnt (de)
Hungarian: szarvas (hu)
Indonesian: bertanduk (id)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hornete
Polish: rogaty (pl)
Russian: рога́тый (ru) (rogátyj)
Swedish: behornad (sv)
Turkish: boynuzlu (tr)
Walloon: coirnou (wa)

sexually aroused

Albanian: epshor (sq)
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: գրգռված (grgṙvac), ղզղնած (łzłnac) (informal)
Bulgarian: възбуден (bg) (vǎzbuden), надървен (nadǎrven)
Catalan: calent (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: (no real equivalent exists; lit. "lust consumes the body") ^{(please verify)} 欲火焚身 (zh) (yùhuǒfénshēn), (lit. "burning up") ^{(please verify)} 慾火中繞／欲火中绕 (yùhuǒ zhōng rào) , (euphemism; "wanting") ^{(please verify)} 想要 (zh) (xiǎngyào), ("sexually frustrated") ^{(please verify)} 慾求不滿／欲求不满 (yùqiú bùmǎn), ("in heat") ^{(please verify)} 發春／发春 (zh) (fāchūn)
Czech: nadržený (cs)
Danish: liderlig, kåd
Dutch: geil (nl), opgewonden (nl)
Faroese: graður, gessigur
Finnish: kiihottunut, kiimainen (fi) (usually of animal)
French: excité (fr), chaud (fr)
Galician: saído
Georgian: აღგზნებული (aɣgznebuli)
German: geil (de), heiß (de), erregt (de), spitz (de)
Greek: καυλωμένος (el) (kavloménos)
Ancient Greek: μάργος m (márgos), ἀσελγής m (aselgḗs), ὑβριστικός (hubristikós)
Greenlandic: tiingavoq
Hebrew: חרמן‎ (he) m (kharmán), חרמנית‎ f (kharmánít)
Hindi: कामोत्तेजित (kāmottejit), उत्तेजित (hi) (uttejit)
Hungarian: kanos (hu), begerjedt
Icelandic: graður
Indonesian: sange, gatal (id)
Irish: adharcach, áilíosach, macnasach
Italian: eccitato (it), infoiato (it), arrapato (it)
Japanese: むらむら (ja) (muramura), 性的興奮 (せいてきこうふん, seiteki kōfun)
Latin: lascīvus, libīdinōsus m
Macedonian: запален (zapalen), напален (napalen), попален (popalen)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: karsk, kåt, tent (no)
Old English: wrǣne
Persian: شهوتی‎ (fa) (šahvati)
Polish: napalony (pl)
Portuguese: excitado (pt)
Romanian: excitat (ro), în călduri
Russian: (сексуа́льно) возбуждённый (ru) (vozbuždjónnyj), (usually expressed with collocations, literally meaning "one wants a man/one wants a woman" or similar)
Scottish Gaelic: drùiseil
Serbo-Croatian: napaljen, напаљен
Slovak: nadržaný
Slovene: potrében
Spanish: jodontón, cachondo, caliente (es), arrecho (es), excitado (es)
Swahili: nyege (sw)
Swedish: kåt (sv), tänd (sv)
Tagalog: nalilibugan, libóg, tigáng (tl) (literally “arid”)
Turkish: abazan (tr), azgın (tr)
Vietnamese: nứng (vi)

sexually arousing

Danish: fræk
Irish: gnéasach, mealltach, téisiúil
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sexy, pirrende, opphissende

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Slovak: ^{(please verify)} zrohovatený, (1) ^{(please verify)} stvrdnutý