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horny

[hawr-nee] / ˈhɔr ni /


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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

“Some old rancher would get up and say, ‘We had horny toads and we should have them again!

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 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Indeed, the university rescinded admission offers for at least 10 prospective students in 2017 over offensive comments they had made in a private Facebook group called “Harvard memes for horny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

Barely ten inches high, its horny little feet pattered very fast as it sprinted across the yard and dived headlong into one of the Wellington boots that lay scattered around the door.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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 William Morris

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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