hornyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːni/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhoɹni/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)ni

形容詞

horny (comparative hornier, superlative horniest)

1. Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.

   Synonyms: callous, coarse, hardened, rough

   • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998, Chapter 6:

     Two Dwarfs were at the bellows, another was holding a piece of red-hot metal on the anvil with a pair of tongs, a fourth was hammering it, and two, wiping their horny little hands on a greasy cloth, were coming forward to meet the visitors.

2. 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:

     She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film.

3. Having horns.

   Synonym: horned

   • 2023 October 2, Karen M. Dvornich, “Short-horned Lizard”, in (Please provide the book title または journal name)‎^[1], 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.

4. (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, 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^[2]:

     “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.

5. (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!

派生語

• (sexually aroused): horniness, hornily

派生した語

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

Further reading

• “horny”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “horny”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Jonathon Green (2023), “horny adj.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang