Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Impure; unclean; dirty; foul.

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Examples

  • We have the hottest sluts strait from Ryloth and they are hory for you!

    Darth Sidious: People Person 2005

  • The standards to be roses; juniper; hory; berberries (but here and there, because of the smell of their blossoms); red currants; gooseberries; rosemary; bays; sweetbriar; and such like.

    The Essays 2007

  • We insurrectioned and, be the procuratress of the hory synnotts, before he could tell pullyirragun to parrylewis, I shuttm, missus, like a wide sleever!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Why teare you my eyes in yours? why pull you your hory haires?

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • Why teare you my eyes in yours? why pull you your hory haires?

    The Golden Asse 1566

  • Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge / Krušné hory) on the heavily industrialized EastGerman-Czech border at the end of the 1980s (the end of the communist era).

    The Reference Frame 2009

  • European Art Centre Sněženka will receive half the profits, with the other half to be split between the participating artists and Tina B. Sněženka brings disabled children and art together at their center in Smržovka in Jizerské hory.

    The Prague Post 2009

  • The standards to be roses; juniper; hory; berberries

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • In English, the saying is to promise the world, or the moon or the earth: slibovat hory doly, translated literally, means to promise mountains

    unknown title 2009

  • In an election year, it is typical for Czech politicians to slibovat hory doly - whatever it takes to get elected, the more cynical might say.

    unknown title 2009

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