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adjective

Horny adj. (compar. hornier; superl. horniest)

Having horns or hornlike projections.

Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn. "The horny... coat of the eye."

Hard; callous. "His horny fist."

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Etymology of 'Horny'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Horny" Quotes from Famous Books

... horny hands together and gazing at Denver benevolently, "we think the indications are good—were you thinking of locating in ...

— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge

... of insects are as follows: the flies, with two wings only; the bees, wasps, and ants, with four delicate wings; the beetles, with four wings—two hard, horny ones covering the two more delicate ones. When the beetle is at rest its two hard wings meet in a straight line down the back. This peculiarity distinguishes it from the true bug, which has four wings. The two outer wings are partly horny, and in folding lap over each other. Butterflies ...

— Agriculture for Beginners - Revised Edition • Charles William Burkett

... gentlemen, so big, so vast, that it makes even your president feel a pulse of pride. This project is nothing more nor less than the opening of a region of waste country which an all-wise Creator has permitted to slumber for ages, for no less purpose than to reserve it to the horny-handed son of toil of our glorious country. It will awaken to the clarion call of our wealth, our brains, and our genius." He then mentioned Corrigan and the Midland grant—another reservation of Providence, which a credulous and asinine Congress ...

— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer

... strike with their cloven hoofs, and butt and stab with their horns. The silly sheep canter gaily to the battle, deliver thundering blows on one another's foreheads, and then retire and charge once more. The impact of their horny foreheads is sufficient to reduce a man's hand to a shapeless pulp, should it find its way between the combatants' skulls. Tigers box like pugilists, and bite like French school-boys; and buffaloes fight clumsily, violently, and vindictively, ...

— In Court and Kampong - Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula • Hugh Clifford

... the employing and professional classes to bind to their chariot-wheels those who labored with their hands. Gigantic trusts had "cornered" all the necessaries of life, and a few lily-fingered plutocrats in their marble palaces dictated to the horny-handed sons of toil the amount of their beggarly wages, and the prices they must pay for every needed article, until every job of work and every bone of charity was fought for by multitudes who mercilessly stabbed each other in ...

— The Gentleman from Everywhere • James Henry Foss

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