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horny

[hawr-nee] / ˈhɔr ni /


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The researchers conclude that the creature’s horny helmet was a powerful buttress for jousting with other males, they report today in Science.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2022

In the study of sponge evolution, horny sponges are notoriously challenging.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021

The lizards face yet another, more natural, problem: Just about anything that can eat a horny toad will eat a horny toad.

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Indeed, the university rescinded admission offers for at least 10 prospective students in 2017 over offensive comments they had made in a private Facebook group called “Harvard memes for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

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 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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