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Yesterday I thought about the word “horny”.

I always heard it meaning “aroused”, usually referred to female, and never noticed the root “horn” in that word.

So yesterday I was asking myself: what have horns to do with horny people?
Does “horny” literally mean “provided with horns” or maybe “made of horn” or “looking/feeling like horn”?

Are we talking about animal horns?

Please, enlighten me! :grin:

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