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Horny vs Porny - What's the difference?

horny | porny |

As adjectives the difference between horny and porny

is that horny is hard or bony, like an animal's horn while porny is pornographic.

horny

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
  • Having horns
    • "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." http://depts.washington.edu/natmap/projects/waterville/begin.html
  • (informal, vulgar) Sexually aroused.
    • That girl makes me feel horny .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1949, author=Henry Miller, title=Sexus
    • , passage=Her thick, gurgling voice saying...: "Get it in all the way... please, please do... I’m horny ."}}
  • * {{quote-journal, year=1971, date=October, journal=Black World, page=65/1
    • , passage=Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.}}

    Synonyms

    * (hard or bony) callous, coarse, coarsened, hardened, rough * (having horns) horned * (sexually aroused) randy, toey, excited; see also * See also

    Derived terms

    * (sexually aroused) horniness

    porny

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal) Pornographic.
  • * 2014 , Julie Bindel, All you lesbians behaving badly – are strip clubs what liberation is for?'' (in ''The Guardian online, 30 June 2014)
    • When I was a young lesbian feminist campaigning to overthrow patriarchy, what irked me most was the fact that some men would impose their own idiotic view of my sexuality on me, by asking if I would perform threesomes with them, or titillate them with a porny kissing display with my girlfriend.