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horny

[hawr-nee] / ˈhɔr ni /


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As a kid in the 1990s, I wandered this desert freely, catching iguanas when I couldn’t find horny toads.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2022

In addition to the unusually thick bones of the neck, they found a hand-size bony disk with a horny “helmet” on the top of its head.

From Science Magazine Jun. 1, 2022

Dr. Turner suggests the meshlike structures closely resemble the fiber networks of modern keratose sponges, also known as horny sponges, found around the world today.

From New York Times Jul. 28, 2021

Indeed, the university rescinded admission offers for at least 10 prospective students in 2017 over offensive comments they had made in a private Facebook group called “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens”.

From The Guardian Jun. 19, 2019

We’d catch scorpions and snakes and horny toads.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

The glass, again, though elegant and quaint, and very varied in form, was somewhat bubbled and hornier in texture than the commercial articles of the nineteenth century. 

From News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance by Morris, William

Like I said mate, I've been a surfin fool, I'm the horniest I have been for surfing in years.

From Time Magazine Archive




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