Lewd vs Horny - What's the difference?
lewd | horny |
Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
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(obsolete) Lay; not clerical.
* Sir J. Davies
(obsolete) Uneducated.
(obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
* Bible, Acts xvii. 5.
* Southey
(obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.
Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
Having horns
(informal, vulgar) Sexually aroused.
* {{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.}}
As adjectives the difference between lewd and horny
is that lewd is lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude while horny is hard or bony, like an animal's horn.lewd
English
Adjective
(er)Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times
- Onstage he was known for ricochet riffs on politics, social issues and cultural matters both high and low; tales of drug and alcohol abuse; lewd commentaries on relations between the sexes; and lightning-like improvisations on anything an audience member might toss at him.
- So these great clerks their little wisdom show / To mock the lewd , as learn'd in this as they.
- But the Jews, which believed not, and assaulted the house of Jason.
- Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief.
Anagrams
* (l), (l)horny
English
Adjective
(er)- "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
- That girl makes me feel horny .