Word Study
horsy
CIDE DICTIONARY
horsy, a.
Pertaining to, or suggestive of, a horse, or of horse racing; as, horsy manners; garments of fantastically horsy fashions. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
horsy, adj. (also horsey) (horsier, horsiest)
1 of or like a horse.
2 concerned with or devoted to horses or horse-racing.
3 affectedly using the dress and language of a groom or jockey.
1 of or like a horse.
2 concerned with or devoted to horses or horse-racing.
3 affectedly using the dress and language of a groom or jockey.
Derivative
horsily adv. horsiness n.
THESAURUS
horsy
asinine, bovid, bovine, caprid, caprine, cowish, cowlike, deerlike, equestrian, equine, goatish, goatlike, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, mulish, ovine, piggish, ruminant, sheepish, sheeplike, swinish, ungulate
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