| 英语单词 | horny |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['hɔːni] 美 ['hɔːrni] |
| 中文释义 | adj.角的;角状的;角质的;好色的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The old gardener had horny hands. (2) Some women hate coming home to a horny husband. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 老园丁有一双粗硬的手。 (2) 有些女性讨厌回家面对好色的丈夫。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Things that are horny either look like or are made of an animal’s horn or a similar hard material. The thick, hard nail on your big toe could be described as horny. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The word horny, describing the bony projection on an animal's head, appeared in English before the 10th century. An informal meaning — that of being sexually aroused — appeared later. Male physical arousal was crudely referred to as "having the horn” in the late 18th century before becoming the word horny in the mid-19th century. First used exclusively for men, the word now describes women's sexual feelings as well. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]欲火中烧的;性欲旺盛的 If you describe someone as horny, you mean that they are sexually aroused or that they easily become sexually aroused. [INFORMAL 非正式]
2 [ADJ 形容词]角质的;角质物制的 Something that is horny is hard, strong, and made of horn or of a hard substance like horn.
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