Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling horses or a horse.
- adjective Devoted to horses and horsemanship.
- adjective Large and clumsy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to or concerned with horses: as, horsy talk.
- Characteristic of or peculiar to the horse: as, a horsy smell.
- Fond of or interested in horses; especially, devoted to or interested in horse-racing or horse-breeding: as, horsy company.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Pertaining to, or suggestive of, a horse, or of horse racing
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
horses . - adjective Of a person or people, involved in breeding or riding horses.
- adjective Of a graphic design or typographical treatment which is clunky, unrefined, clumsy.
- noun A child's term or name for a horse.
- noun A game where a child rides on the back of another, who is on all fours (also spelled
horsey ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Everyone, who was anybody in the "horsy" set, was there.
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Everyone, who was anybody in the "horsy" set, was there.
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Elsewhere (i. 55-62) the 'horsy' youth is spoken of as worse than the husband who connives at his wife's dishonour and pockets the reward of her shame.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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"Little Lord Fauntleroy," and afterwards as a "horsy" young man in a _matinée_ in which Violet Vanbrugh appeared.
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903
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'horsy' is, in English acceptance, a count in the indictment against his claim to be thought a gentleman, it is not surprising that there will be men more ready to hazard their characters than their connoisseurship.
Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839
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It is, however, in Sweden that the "horsy" aspect of the festival is most obvious. {
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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I adore you for the Mercedes and the house and my Arabian horsy Gayle whinnies affectionately.
Sentimental Me Christopher Allen 2011
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We refer to pieces as the 'knight' or the 'rook,' not as 'the little horsy' or 'castle,' Bentley said of how the club does not dumb down the game to suit the middle school students.
Schools provide chess for students' enjoyment, intellect 2011
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She bellowed, and I could see every tooth in that horsy mouth, and beyond: throat, epiglottis.
Temporary Robert Vaughan 2011
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May 17, 2010, 2: 34 pm rodsmith says: horsy pucky!
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