horsen
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sən
Etymology 1
From Middle English horsen, horsene, equivalent to horse + -en (“of or belonging to”).
Adjective
horsen (comparative more horsen, superlative most horsen)
- (obsolete, rare) Of or pertaining to horses; equine
- 1558, Warde, Alexis' Secr.:
- Let hym put the Yearth onely, the Floxe, and the Horsen doung.
- 1773, Thomas Hawkins, Gammer Gurton's needle:
- For laughter: the horsen dolt at last caught up a club, As though he would have slain the master devil, Belsabub, […]
- 1907, William Monks, A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas:
- They were all soon mounted and moving toward West Plains, soon coming to a "horsen" log.
- 1952, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Volume 69:
- […] farm nearly equal to Thurston's: he complained against William Seburne, who under the name Hopkins had as great a total land interest, that 'Seyborne seyde ffoorde was a bawdy knave and a bawdy harlot a horsen knave and that no truth […]
Etymology 2
From Middle English horsen, alternative plural of hors, equivalent to horse + -en (plural suffix).
Noun
horsen
Anagrams
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Noun
horsen
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