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Thornier vs Hornier - What's the difference?

thornier | hornier |

As adjectives the difference between thornier and hornier

is that thornier is (thorny) while hornier is (horny).

thornier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (thorny)

    • thorny

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • having thorns or spines
  • troublesome or vexatious
  • * Shakespeare
    • the steep and thorny way to heaven
  • aloof and irritable
  • * Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives
    • 'Come, Jo, don't be thorny . After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting, and ought to get it.'

    Derived terms

    * (l) * thorny restharrow * thorny trefoil

    Anagrams

    *

    hornier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (horny)

    • 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