hornyadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈhɔːni/, U.S.

/ˈhɔrni/

Etymology: < horn n. + -y suffix¹.

A. adj.

a. Consisting of horn; of a texture resembling that of horn; corneous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [adjective] > of texture of horn

horny1398

buck-horn1613

hornish1634

corneous1646

horn-like1684

cornuous1818

ceratinous1881

hornified1963

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > horny or corneous

horny1398

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. v Foure [webbes] bene in the formest partye [of the eye]..the thredde de cornia, horny.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 316/1 Horny, made or stored of hornes.

1615 J. Loiseau de Tourval tr. H. de Feynes Exact Surv. E. Indies 20 With a kind of hornie rinde.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 267 Him thought, he..saw the Ravens with their horny beaks Food to Elijah bringing Even and Morn.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 253 These eggs [of the ray] are covered with a tough horny substance.

1864 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress 398 Amœba-like creatures, massed together in a frame-work of horny fibres, constitute Sponge.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 532/1 Wheats of hotter countries have a more solid, rigid straw, the ears short, stout, compact, the glumes provided with long awns or beards, and the seed hard and horny.

†b. horny gate (also port): the gate of horn (see gate n.¹ 5). Obsolete.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > mythological portal of

horny gate (also port)1605

the gate of horn1831

the ivory gate1870

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun]

heaveneOE

land of behesta1200

Cockaigne?c1335

Fortunate Islands?a1475

eutopia1553

utopia1601

horny gate (also port)1605

nonsucha1618

Americaa1631

El Dorado1788

other world1804

Cockneyland1817

cloud-cuckoo-land1824

Fiddler's Green1825

dreamland1832

Neverland1892

never-never land1900

Big Rock Candy Mountain1917

brave new world1933

Xanadu1948

Disneyland1956

ecotopia1975

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Triumph of Faith in tr. Deuine Weekes & Wks. 547 Sad Morpheus entring in Through's hornie gate.

?1614 W. Drummond Dametas Dreame in Poems Dametas dream'd he saw his Wife at Sport, And found that sight was through the hornie Port.

†c. horny coronet n. humorously put for ‘cuckold's horns’. Obsolete.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > husband of adulterous wife > symbol of

to give horns to1430

ox feather1615

knob1658

shoeing-horn1664

Sussex crest1681

horny coronet1688

bull's feather1704

1688 J. Crowne Darius Prol. He dubbs this Man a Knave, a Coxcomb that; Gives any Brow a horny Coronet.

2. transferred.

a. Callous or hardened so as to be horn-like in texture.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [adjective] > types of

fair-handed1505

steadfast1535

white-handed1598

hard-handed1600

horny1693

large-handed1712

red-handed1827

lily-handed1847

talon-like1883

1693 N. Tate tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xv. 299 Who wanting Weapons clutch their Horny Fists.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 127 'Till his hard horny Fingers ake with Pain.

1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (ed. 2) v. ii. 177 It is observed that horny hands, in the colonies, get gold into them sooner than white ones.

1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan i. i. 84 Bronzed with weather, and horny of hand.

b. Sexually excited; lecherous. (Chiefly used of a man.) Cf. horn n. 5c. slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > sexually excited

proud1590

primea1616

horny1889

horn-mad1893

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > lecherous

lecherous1303

lickerous1377

cocky1549

cockish?1555

lickering1578

codding1594

salt1598

lickerish1599

rewish1617

tentiginous1631

liquorsome1656

salacious1661

lechering1693

horny1889

horn-mad1893

tomcat1899

whorehopping1954

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 476/1 Horny, lecherous, in a state of sexual desire, in rut.

1918 Dial. Notes 5 25 Horny, amative.

1949 H. Miller Sexus (1969) v. 104 Her thick, gurgling voice saying..: ‘Get it in all the way…please, please do... I'm horny.’

1949 H. Miller Sexus (1969) x. 239 When I look at this thing I get horny again.

1965 J. L. Herlihy Midnight Cowboy (1966) ii. v. 120 You are a gorgeous-lookin' piece, Cass. Gets a guy all horny just lookin' at you.

1968 M. Richler Cocksure xi. 63 When..he used to make a habit of watching the hockey games..he always felt horny.

1970 T. Lewis Jack's Return Home 43 The talk'd got filthier. It'd made me very horny.

1971 Black World Oct. 65/1 Ain't that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.

3. Semi-opaque like horn.

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the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > [adjective] > semi-transparent

translucid1640

hornya1656

semi-diaphanous1663

semi-opacous1663

semi-opaque1692

translucent1726

semi-transparent1797

subtranslucent1828

vaporous1863

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) i. v. 30 They [angels] do not (as we mortals are wont) look through the dim and horny spectacle of senses.

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. iv. 75 So affected as to be at least horny, if not in a slight degree transparent.

1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 202 The media afforded by expressed oils become horny or semi-opaque.

4. Bearing, having, or abounding in horns or horn-like projections.

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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [adjective] > pointed projection

horny1530

styliform1578

styliformed1578

pungent1602

lingual1650

muricate1661

muricated1707

linguiform1753

lingulate1763

triglochin1835

lingular1855

cornual1890

1530 [see sense A. 1a].

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 89 So it appeareth by her hornie head.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Horny, abounding in horns. It is applied to a sample of barley, from which the awns have not been properly separated in the process of winnowing.

5. Consisting of beasts' horns.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having horns > consisting of beasts' horns

hornya1732

a1732 J. Gay Birth of Squire (T.) The horny spoils that grac'd the wall.

6. Of sounds: like that of a horn.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [adjective]

tooting1652

honking1813

horny1869

1869 P. Fitzgerald Fatal Zero I. ix. 86 When they open their full lips out streams the twang, nasal and horny.

B. n.

1. Usually Auld Hornie: A name for: the devil. Scottish.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun]

devileOE

Beelzebubc950

the foul ghosteOE

SatanOE

warlockOE

SatanasOE

worsea1200

unwinea1225

wondc1250

quedea1275

pucka1300

serpenta1300

dragon1340

shrew1362

Apollyon1382

the god of this worldc1384

Mahoundc1400

leviathan1412

worsta1425

old enemyc1449

Ruffin1567

dismal1570

Plotcocka1578

the Wicked One1582

goodman1603

Mahu1603

foul thief1609

somebody1609

legiona1616

Lord of Flies1622

walliman1629

shaitan1638

Old Nicka1643

Nick1647

unsel?1675

old gentleman1681

old boy1692

the gentleman in black1693

deuce1694

Black Spy1699

the vicious one1713

worricow1719

Old Roger1725

Lord of the Flies1727

Simmie1728

Old Scratch1734

Old Harry1777

Old Poker1784

Auld Hornie1786

old (auld), ill thief1789

old one1790

little-good1821

Tom Walker1833

bogy1840

diabolarch1845

Old Ned1859

iniquity1899

1786 R. Burns Poems 55 O Thou, whatever title suit thee! Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie.

1806 J. Black Falls of Clyde i. iv I'm sure I wish them a' in hell Wi' Hornie their auld father there to dwell.

1840 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) V. 44 As ‘old Hornie’, or some~body I took for him, once said to me.

2. A policeman. slang.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman

truncheon officer1708

runner1735

horny1753

nibbing-cull1775

nabbing-cull1780

police officer1784

police constable1787

policeman1788

scout1789

nabman1792

nabber1795

pig1811

Bow-street officer1812

nab1813

peeler1816

split1819

grunter1823

robin redbreast1824

bulky1828

raw (or unboiled) lobster1829

Johnny Darm1830

polis1833

crusher1835

constable1839

police1839

agent1841

johndarm1843

blue boy1844

bobby1844

bluebottle1845

copper1846

blue1848

polisman1850

blue coat1851

Johnny1851

PC1851

spot1851

Jack1854

truncheonist1854

fly1857

greycoat1857

cop1859

Cossack1859

slop1859

scuffer1860

nailerc1863

worm1864

Robert1870

reeler1879

minion of the law1882

ginger pop1887

rozzer1888

nark1890

bull1893

grasshopper1893

truncheon-bearer1896

John1898

finger1899

flatty1899

mug1903

John Dunn1904

John Hop1905

gendarme1906

Johnny Hop1908

pavement pounder1908

buttons1911

flat-foot1913

pounder1919

Hop1923

bogy1925

shamus1925

heat1928

fuzz1929

law1929

narker1932

roach1932

jonnop1938

grass1939

roller1940

Babylon1943

walloper1945

cozzer1950

Old Bill1958

cowboy1959

monaych1961

cozzpot1962

policeperson1965

woolly1965

Fed1966

wolly1970

plod1971

roz1971

Smokey Bear1974

bear1975

beast1978

woodentop1981

Five-O1983

dibble1990

Bow-street runner-

1753 Discov. J. Poulter (ed. 2) 39 A Horney,..a Constable.

1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xiv. 128 There's no horneys, traps, scouts, nor beak-runners amongst them.

1856 J. Strang Glasgow & its Clubs 187 Town officers..were then better known by the appellation of red-coat officers or hornies.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 155 Can't blame them after all with the job they have especially the young hornies.

3. A cow; a bullock. Scottish and Australian slang.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun]

cowa800

nowtc1450

mower1673

colly1707

Scot1787

horny1808

moo-cow1810

sookie1838

bossy1844

sook1850

cow-creature1873

moo1930

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bull > [noun] > castrated or bullock

steera700

oxeOE

bullocka1000

stot1251

bovert?a1400

stotterel1532

ox stirk1550

steerling1648

horny1808

piker1887

1808 A. Scott Poems (ed. 2) 81 Bedown the green the hornies rowt.

1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie I. xiv. 194 Hornie—so named, indeed, because of her readiness to use the weapons with which Nature had provided her..was in fact a malicious cow.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Jan. 25 Polled cattle graded better than the hornies.

1938 X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) xx. 273 Hornies, or beasts with ingrowing horns.

1943 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang (ed. 3) 40 Horney-steerer, a bullock driver.

Compounds

C1. Parasynthetic.

horny-browed adj.

ΚΠ

1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 158 Goatish creatures with human faces, horny browed, lightly bearded and grey as indiarubber.

horny-eyed adj.

horny-fisted adj.

ΚΠ

1912 W. Owen Let. 2 July (1967) 148 A bushy-browed and horny-fisted blacksmith's assistant.

horny-handed adj.

ΚΠ

1858 J. Brown Rab in Horæ Subsecivæ 1st Ser. 307 That horny-handed, snell, peremptory little man.

1892 Spectator 10 Dec. 847/2 He must have employed indirectly tens of thousands of the horny-handed.

horny-hoofed adj.

ΚΠ

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xiii. 179 From the tempil of Diane euermo Thir horny hovit horssis bene debarrit.

horny-knuckled adj.

ΚΠ

1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair ii. xxxvi. 39 The horny-knuckled kilted Highlandman.

horny-nibbed adj.

ΚΠ

1880 Ld. Tennyson Battle of Brunanburh xiv The horny-nibb'd raven.

C2.

horny-head n. U.S. (in full hornyhead chub) a North American cyprinid fish, Nocomis biguttatus; occasionally also used for Campostoma anomalum, a smaller cyprinid.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > member of genus Nocomis

river chub1736

hornyhead chub1882

stone-toter1817

stone roller1878

hornyhead chub1882

stone-lugger1882

rotgut1920

1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 212 C[eratichthys] biguttatus..Horny Head; River Chub; Jerker.

1933 Amer. Speech 8 50/1 Horny-head... A chub-like fish with short, horny protuberances on the scales, those on top of the head being largest.

1963 P. A. Parsons Outdoor Life Compl. Bk. Fresh Water Fishing iv. 45 Hornyhead chubs, excellent bait for members of the pike family, are durable on the hook.

1965 A. J. McClane Standard Fishing Encycl. 891/2 Stoneroller. Campostoma anomalum. Also known as hornyhead and knottyhead, it is a brownish-olive minnow with a brassy luster.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	horny
释义	hornyadj.n. Brit. /ˈhɔːni/, U.S. /ˈhɔrni/ Etymology: < horn n. + -y suffix¹. A. adj. 1. a. Consisting of horn; of a texture resembling that of horn; corneous. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [adjective] > of texture of horn horny1398 buck-horn1613 hornish1634 corneous1646 horn-like1684 cornuous1818 ceratinous1881 hornified1963 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > horny or corneous horny1398 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. v Foure [webbes] bene in the formest partye [of the eye]..the thredde de cornia, horny. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 316/1 Horny, made or stored of hornes. 1615 J. Loiseau de Tourval tr. H. de Feynes Exact Surv. E. Indies 20 With a kind of hornie rinde. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 267 Him thought, he..saw the Ravens with their horny beaks Food to Elijah bringing Even and Morn. View more context for this quotation 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 253 These eggs [of the ray] are covered with a tough horny substance. 1864 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress 398 Amœba-like creatures, massed together in a frame-work of horny fibres, constitute Sponge. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 532/1 Wheats of hotter countries have a more solid, rigid straw, the ears short, stout, compact, the glumes provided with long awns or beards, and the seed hard and horny. †b. horny gate (also port): the gate of horn (see gate n.¹ 5). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > mythological portal of horny gate (also port)1605 the gate of horn1831 the ivory gate1870 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun] heaveneOE land of behesta1200 Cockaigne?c1335 Fortunate Islands?a1475 eutopia1553 utopia1601 horny gate (also port)1605 nonsucha1618 Americaa1631 El Dorado1788 other world1804 Cockneyland1817 cloud-cuckoo-land1824 Fiddler's Green1825 dreamland1832 Neverland1892 never-never land1900 Big Rock Candy Mountain1917 brave new world1933 Xanadu1948 Disneyland1956 ecotopia1975 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Triumph of Faith in tr. Deuine Weekes & Wks. 547 Sad Morpheus entring in Through's hornie gate. ?1614 W. Drummond Dametas Dreame in Poems Dametas dream'd he saw his Wife at Sport, And found that sight was through the hornie Port. †c. horny coronet n. humorously put for ‘cuckold's horns’. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > husband of adulterous wife > symbol of to give horns to1430 ox feather1615 knob1658 shoeing-horn1664 Sussex crest1681 horny coronet1688 bull's feather1704 1688 J. Crowne Darius Prol. He dubbs this Man a Knave, a Coxcomb that; Gives any Brow a horny Coronet. 2. transferred. a. Callous or hardened so as to be horn-like in texture. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [adjective] > types of fair-handed1505 steadfast1535 white-handed1598 hard-handed1600 horny1693 large-handed1712 red-handed1827 lily-handed1847 talon-like1883 1693 N. Tate tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xv. 299 Who wanting Weapons clutch their Horny Fists. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 127 'Till his hard horny Fingers ake with Pain. View more context for this quotation 1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (ed. 2) v. ii. 177 It is observed that horny hands, in the colonies, get gold into them sooner than white ones. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan i. i. 84 Bronzed with weather, and horny of hand. b. Sexually excited; lecherous. (Chiefly used of a man.) Cf. horn n. 5c. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > sexually excited proud1590 primea1616 horny1889 horn-mad1893 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > lecherous lecherous1303 lickerous1377 cocky1549 cockish?1555 lickering1578 codding1594 salt1598 lickerish1599 rewish1617 tentiginous1631 liquorsome1656 salacious1661 lechering1693 horny1889 horn-mad1893 tomcat1899 whorehopping1954 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 476/1 Horny, lecherous, in a state of sexual desire, in rut. 1918 Dial. Notes 5 25 Horny, amative. 1949 H. Miller Sexus (1969) v. 104 Her thick, gurgling voice saying..: ‘Get it in all the way…please, please do... I'm horny.’ 1949 H. Miller Sexus (1969) x. 239 When I look at this thing I get horny again. 1965 J. L. Herlihy Midnight Cowboy (1966) ii. v. 120 You are a gorgeous-lookin' piece, Cass. Gets a guy all horny just lookin' at you. 1968 M. Richler Cocksure xi. 63 When..he used to make a habit of watching the hockey games..he always felt horny. 1970 T. Lewis Jack's Return Home 43 The talk'd got filthier. It'd made me very horny. 1971 Black World Oct. 65/1 Ain't that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude. 3. Semi-opaque like horn. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > [adjective] > semi-transparent translucid1640 hornya1656 semi-diaphanous1663 semi-opacous1663 semi-opaque1692 translucent1726 semi-transparent1797 subtranslucent1828 vaporous1863 a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) i. v. 30 They [angels] do not (as we mortals are wont) look through the dim and horny spectacle of senses. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. iv. 75 So affected as to be at least horny, if not in a slight degree transparent. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 202 The media afforded by expressed oils become horny or semi-opaque. 4. Bearing, having, or abounding in horns or horn-like projections. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [adjective] > pointed projection horny1530 styliform1578 styliformed1578 pungent1602 lingual1650 muricate1661 muricated1707 linguiform1753 lingulate1763 triglochin1835 lingular1855 cornual1890 1530 [see sense A. 1a]. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 89 So it appeareth by her hornie head. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Horny, abounding in horns. It is applied to a sample of barley, from which the awns have not been properly separated in the process of winnowing. 5. Consisting of beasts' horns. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having horns > consisting of beasts' horns hornya1732 a1732 J. Gay Birth of Squire (T.) The horny spoils that grac'd the wall. 6. Of sounds: like that of a horn. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [adjective] tooting1652 honking1813 horny1869 1869 P. Fitzgerald Fatal Zero I. ix. 86 When they open their full lips out streams the twang, nasal and horny. B. n. 1. Usually Auld Hornie: A name for: the devil. Scottish. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] devileOE Beelzebubc950 the foul ghosteOE SatanOE warlockOE SatanasOE worsea1200 unwinea1225 wondc1250 quedea1275 pucka1300 serpenta1300 dragon1340 shrew1362 Apollyon1382 the god of this worldc1384 Mahoundc1400 leviathan1412 worsta1425 old enemyc1449 Ruffin1567 dismal1570 Plotcocka1578 the Wicked One1582 goodman1603 Mahu1603 foul thief1609 somebody1609 legiona1616 Lord of Flies1622 walliman1629 shaitan1638 Old Nicka1643 Nick1647 unsel?1675 old gentleman1681 old boy1692 the gentleman in black1693 deuce1694 Black Spy1699 the vicious one1713 worricow1719 Old Roger1725 Lord of the Flies1727 Simmie1728 Old Scratch1734 Old Harry1777 Old Poker1784 Auld Hornie1786 old (auld), ill thief1789 old one1790 little-good1821 Tom Walker1833 bogy1840 diabolarch1845 Old Ned1859 iniquity1899 1786 R. Burns Poems 55 O Thou, whatever title suit thee! Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie. 1806 J. Black Falls of Clyde i. iv I'm sure I wish them a' in hell Wi' Hornie their auld father there to dwell. 1840 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) V. 44 As ‘old Hornie’, or some~body I took for him, once said to me. 2. A policeman. slang. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman truncheon officer1708 runner1735 horny1753 nibbing-cull1775 nabbing-cull1780 police officer1784 police constable1787 policeman1788 scout1789 nabman1792 nabber1795 pig1811 Bow-street officer1812 nab1813 peeler1816 split1819 grunter1823 robin redbreast1824 bulky1828 raw (or unboiled) lobster1829 Johnny Darm1830 polis1833 crusher1835 constable1839 police1839 agent1841 johndarm1843 blue boy1844 bobby1844 bluebottle1845 copper1846 blue1848 polisman1850 blue coat1851 Johnny1851 PC1851 spot1851 Jack1854 truncheonist1854 fly1857 greycoat1857 cop1859 Cossack1859 slop1859 scuffer1860 nailerc1863 worm1864 Robert1870 reeler1879 minion of the law1882 ginger pop1887 rozzer1888 nark1890 bull1893 grasshopper1893 truncheon-bearer1896 John1898 finger1899 flatty1899 mug1903 John Dunn1904 John Hop1905 gendarme1906 Johnny Hop1908 pavement pounder1908 buttons1911 flat-foot1913 pounder1919 Hop1923 bogy1925 shamus1925 heat1928 fuzz1929 law1929 narker1932 roach1932 jonnop1938 grass1939 roller1940 Babylon1943 walloper1945 cozzer1950 Old Bill1958 cowboy1959 monaych1961 cozzpot1962 policeperson1965 woolly1965 Fed1966 wolly1970 plod1971 roz1971 Smokey Bear1974 bear1975 beast1978 woodentop1981 Five-O1983 dibble1990 Bow-street runner- 1753 Discov. J. Poulter (ed. 2) 39 A Horney,..a Constable. 1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xiv. 128 There's no horneys, traps, scouts, nor beak-runners amongst them. 1856 J. Strang Glasgow & its Clubs 187 Town officers..were then better known by the appellation of red-coat officers or hornies. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 155 Can't blame them after all with the job they have especially the young hornies. 3. A cow; a bullock. Scottish and Australian slang. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] cowa800 nowtc1450 mower1673 colly1707 Scot1787 horny1808 moo-cow1810 sookie1838 bossy1844 sook1850 cow-creature1873 moo1930 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bull > [noun] > castrated or bullock steera700 oxeOE bullocka1000 stot1251 bovert?a1400 stotterel1532 ox stirk1550 steerling1648 horny1808 piker1887 1808 A. Scott Poems (ed. 2) 81 Bedown the green the hornies rowt. 1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie I. xiv. 194 Hornie—so named, indeed, because of her readiness to use the weapons with which Nature had provided her..was in fact a malicious cow. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Jan. 25 Polled cattle graded better than the hornies. 1938 X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) xx. 273 Hornies, or beasts with ingrowing horns. 1943 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang (ed. 3) 40 Horney-steerer, a bullock driver. Compounds C1. Parasynthetic. horny-browed adj. ΚΠ 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 158 Goatish creatures with human faces, horny browed, lightly bearded and grey as indiarubber. horny-eyed adj. horny-fisted adj. ΚΠ 1912 W. Owen Let. 2 July (1967) 148 A bushy-browed and horny-fisted blacksmith's assistant. horny-handed adj. ΚΠ 1858 J. Brown Rab in Horæ Subsecivæ 1st Ser. 307 That horny-handed, snell, peremptory little man. 1892 Spectator 10 Dec. 847/2 He must have employed indirectly tens of thousands of the horny-handed. horny-hoofed adj. ΚΠ 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xiii. 179 From the tempil of Diane euermo Thir horny hovit horssis bene debarrit. horny-knuckled adj. ΚΠ 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair ii. xxxvi. 39 The horny-knuckled kilted Highlandman. horny-nibbed adj. ΚΠ 1880 Ld. Tennyson Battle of Brunanburh xiv The horny-nibb'd raven. C2. horny-head n. U.S. (in full hornyhead chub) a North American cyprinid fish, Nocomis biguttatus; occasionally also used for Campostoma anomalum, a smaller cyprinid. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > member of genus Nocomis river chub1736 hornyhead chub1882 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > campostoma anomalum (stone roller) stone-toter1817 stone roller1878 hornyhead chub1882 stone-lugger1882 rotgut1920 1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 212 C[eratichthys] biguttatus..Horny Head; River Chub; Jerker. 1933 Amer. Speech 8 50/1 Horny-head... A chub-like fish with short, horny protuberances on the scales, those on top of the head being largest. 1963 P. A. Parsons Outdoor Life Compl. Bk. Fresh Water Fishing iv. 45 Hornyhead chubs, excellent bait for members of the pike family, are durable on the hook. 1965 A. J. McClane Standard Fishing Encycl. 891/2 Stoneroller. Campostoma anomalum. Also known as hornyhead and knottyhead, it is a brownish-olive minnow with a brassy luster. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1398
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