Lust vs Horny - What's the difference?
lust | horny |
A feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
(archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
* Spenser
* Bishop Hall
(archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
(obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
To desire very strongly.
To crave sexual contact urgently.
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 a noun lust
is a feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.As a verb lust
is to desire very strongly.As an adjective horny is
hard or bony, like an animal's horn.lust
English
(wikipedia lust)Noun
- Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust .
- The boarders hide their lust to go home.
- For little lust had she to talk of aught.
- My lust to devotion is little.
- An ideal son is his father's lasting lust .
- (Francis Bacon)
Derived terms
* bloodlust * lustful * lustihood * lustily * lustiness * lustless * lusty * lust murderVerb
(en verb)- She was lusting after the new short dress she set her eyes on in the shop.
Anagrams
* * ----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 .