horny

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːni/
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• General-American: /ˈhoɹni/
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)ni
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AO1 R N IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English horny, equivalent to horn + -y. Compare German hornig. Compare also Dutch hoornachtig, Swedish hornaktig, Old English hyrniġ (“angular”). Piecewise doublet of corny.

From the horn (“an erect penis”) + -y (“having the quality of”). The adjective originally meant "erect", but was later was broadened to refer not only to sexual arousal but also to sexual desire in general.

169 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: brinor — hard or bony
• Bulgarian: рогов (rogov) — hard or bony
• Bulgarian: мазолест (mazolest) — hard or bony
• Catalan: corni — hard or bony
• Czech: rohovitý — hard or bony
• Dutch: hoornig — hard or bony
• Dutch: stijf — hard or bony
• Finnish: luinen — hard or bony
• French: corné — hard or bony
• Georgian: გამაგრებული (gamagrebuli) — hard or bony
• German: hornig — hard or bony
• German: schwielig — hard or bony
• Greek: κεράτινος (kerátinos) — hard or bony
• Hungarian: szarus — hard or bony
• Hungarian: kérges — hard or bony
• Italian: corneo — hard or bony
• Macedonian: ро́гов (rógov) — hard or bony
• Macedonian: ро́жен (róžen) — hard or bony
• Macedonian: тврд (tvrd) — hard or bony
• Norwegian Bokmål: hard — hard or bony
• Norwegian Bokmål: benete — hard or bony
• Norwegian Bokmål: hornaktig — hard or bony
• Polish: rogowy — hard or bony
• Polish: zrogowaciały — hard or bony
• Portuguese: caloso — hard or bony
• Portuguese: calejado — hard or bony
• Portuguese: córneo — hard or bony
• Russian: рогово́й (rogovój) — hard or bony
• Russian: мозо́листый (mozólistyj) — hard or bony
• Spanish: córneo — hard or bony
• Vietnamese: cứng — hard or bony
• Walloon: coirnixheus — hard or bony
• Arabic: أَقْرَن (ʔaqran) — having horns
• Bulgarian: рогат (rogat) — having horns
• Chinese Mandarin: 角質 /角质 (jiǎozhì) — having horns
• Czech: rohatý — having horns
• Danish: behornet — having horns
• Dutch: gehoornd — having horns
• Finnish: sarvekas — having horns
• French: cornu — having horns
• Georgian: რქიანი (rkiani) — having horns
• Georgian: რქოსანი (rkosani) — having horns
• German: gehörnt — having horns
• Hungarian: szarvas — having horns
• Indonesian: bertanduk — having horns
• Italian: cornuto — having horns
• Macedonian: ро́гат (rógat) — having horns
• Norwegian Bokmål: hornete — having horns
• Polish: rogaty — having horns
• Portuguese: chifrudo — having horns
• Russian: рога́тый (rogátyj) — having horns
• Serbo-Croatian: rogat — having horns
• Swedish: behornad — having horns
• Turkish: boynuzlu — having horns
• Walloon: coirnou — having horns
• Afrikaans: jags — sexually aroused
• Albanian: epshor — sexually aroused
• Armenian: գրգռված (grgṙvac) — sexually aroused
• Armenian: ղզղնած (ġzġnac) — sexually aroused
• Azerbaijani: yanıq — sexually aroused
• Bulgarian: възбуден (vǎzbuden) — sexually aroused
• Bulgarian: надървен (nadǎrven) — sexually aroused
• Catalan: calent — sexually aroused
• Chinese Mandarin: 騷 /骚 (sāo) — sexually aroused
• Czech: nadržený — sexually aroused
• Danish: liderlig — sexually aroused
• Danish: kåd — sexually aroused
• Dutch: geil — sexually aroused
• Dutch: opgewonden — sexually aroused
• Esperanto: amorema — sexually aroused
• Esperanto: voluptema — sexually aroused
• Faroese: graður — sexually aroused
• Faroese: gessigur — sexually aroused
• Finnish: kiihottunut — sexually aroused
• Finnish: kiimainen — sexually aroused
• Finnish: panettaa — sexually aroused
• French: chaud — sexually aroused
• French: excité — sexually aroused
• Galician: saído — sexually aroused
• Georgian: აღგზნებული (aɣgznebuli) — sexually aroused
• German: geil — sexually aroused
• German: heiß — sexually aroused
• German: erregt — sexually aroused
• German: spitz — sexually aroused
• German: rollig — sexually aroused
• Greek: καυλωμένος (kavloménos) — sexually aroused
• Ancient Greek: μάργος (márgos) — sexually aroused
• Ancient Greek: ἀσελγής (aselgḗs) — sexually aroused
• Ancient Greek: ὑβριστικός (hubristikós) — sexually aroused
• Greenlandic: tiingavoq — sexually aroused
• Hebrew: חרמן (kharmán) — sexually aroused
• Hebrew: חרמנית (kharmánít) — sexually aroused
• Hindi: कामोत्तेजित (kāmottejit) — sexually aroused
• Hindi: उत्तेजित (uttejit) — sexually aroused
• Hungarian: kanos — sexually aroused
• Hungarian: begerjedt — sexually aroused
• Hungarian: felizgult — sexually aroused
• Icelandic: graður — sexually aroused
• Indonesian: sange — sexually aroused
• Indonesian: gatal — sexually aroused
• Irish: adharcach — sexually aroused
• Irish: áilíosach — sexually aroused
• Irish: macnasach — sexually aroused
• Italian: eccitato — sexually aroused
• Italian: infoiato — sexually aroused
• Italian: arrapato — sexually aroused
• Japanese: むらむら (muramura) — sexually aroused
• Japanese: 性的興奮 (seiteki kōfun) — sexually aroused
• Latin: lascīvus — sexually aroused
• Latin: libīdinōsus — sexually aroused
• Macedonian: за́пален (zápalen) — sexually aroused
• Macedonian: во́збуден (vózbuden) — sexually aroused
• Macedonian: на́пален (nápalen) — sexually aroused
• Macedonian: по́пален (pópalen) — sexually aroused
• Malay: gatal — sexually aroused
• Malay: stim — sexually aroused
• Norwegian Bokmål: karsk — sexually aroused
• Norwegian Bokmål: kåt — sexually aroused
• Norwegian Bokmål: tent — sexually aroused
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gra — sexually aroused
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brunstig — sexually aroused
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kåt — sexually aroused
• Norwegian Nynorsk: paringshuga — sexually aroused
• Old English: wrǣne — sexually aroused
• Persian: شهوتی (šahvati) — sexually aroused
• Persian: حشری (hašari) — sexually aroused
• Polish: napalony — sexually aroused
• Portuguese: excitado — sexually aroused
• Portuguese: com tesão — sexually aroused
• Romanian: excitat — sexually aroused
• Romanian: în călduri — sexually aroused
• Russian: возбуждённый (vozbuždjónnyj) — sexually aroused
• Scottish Gaelic: drùiseil — sexually aroused
• Serbo-Croatian: napaljen — sexually aroused
• Serbo-Croatian: напаљен — sexually aroused
• Serbo-Croatian: narajcan — sexually aroused
• Serbo-Croatian: nadražen — sexually aroused
• Serbo-Croatian: uzbudjen — sexually aroused
• Slovak: nadržaný — sexually aroused
• Old Slovak: jurný — sexually aroused
• Slovene: potrében — sexually aroused
• Spanish: jodontón — sexually aroused
• Spanish: cachondo — sexually aroused
• Spanish: caliente — sexually aroused
• Spanish: arrecho — sexually aroused
• Spanish: excitado — sexually aroused
• Spanish: alzado — sexually aroused
• Spanish: calenturiento — sexually aroused
• Swahili: nyege — sexually aroused
• Swedish: kåt — sexually aroused
• Swedish: tänd — sexually aroused
• Tagalog: nalilibugan — sexually aroused
• Tagalog: libóg — sexually aroused
• Tagalog: tigáng — sexually aroused
• Thai: เงี่ยน (ngîian) — sexually aroused
• Thai: เสี้ยน (sîian) — sexually aroused
• Turkish: abazan — sexually aroused
• Turkish: azgın — sexually aroused
• Vietnamese: nứng — sexually aroused
• Vietnamese: cương — sexually aroused
• Danish: fræk — sexually arousing
• German: geil — sexually arousing
• Hungarian: izgató — sexually arousing
• Irish: gnéasach — sexually arousing
• Irish: mealltach — sexually arousing
• Irish: téisiúil — sexually arousing
• Norwegian Bokmål: sexy — sexually arousing
• Norwegian Bokmål: pirrende — sexually arousing
• Norwegian Bokmål: opphissende — sexually arousing