hornify

English

Etymology

horny +‎ -fy

Verb

hornify (third-person singular simple present hornifies, present participle hornifying, simple past and past participle hornified)

1. (transitive) To make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden.
   • 1930, The Journal of the American Dental Association: Volume 17:

     We see in Figure 8 that the hornified cuticle runs continuously over the cementum […]

2. (transitive, colloquial) To make horny; to excite sexually; to arouse.
   • 2005, Jeff Harris, Fay and Eddy, page 88:

     The air and the water hornified him. Then he met her. The sun was making her horny, and the sunset got her horny, and the moon, and the trees and the birds, they all got her horny […]

3. (transitive, obsolete) To horn; to cuckold.
   • c. 1608–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, “Fovr Playes, or Morall Representations, in One”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     My Wife has hornified me.