horned
Meaning
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- Having horns.
- (obsolete) Cuckolded.
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Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈhɔː(ɹ)nd/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English horned, hornyd, from Old English hyrned, ġehyrned (“having horns; horned”), from Proto-Germanic *hurnidaz (“horned”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *hurnijaną (“to horn; provide or fit with horns”); equivalent to horn (“noun”) + -ed. Cognate with Dutch gehoornd (“horned”), German gehörnt (“horned”), Danish hornede (“horned”).
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horn
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- A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
- An antler.
- The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
- A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- Any of several musical wind instruments.
- An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- A conical device used to direct waves.
- (informal) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- (slang) A telephone.
- (slang) An erection of the penis.
- A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
- A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
- An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
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