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Definition of Horsy
1. a. Pertaining to, or suggestive of, a horse, or of horse racing; as, horsy manners; garments of fantastically horsy fashions.
Definition of Horsy
1. Adjective. Of or relating to horses. ¹
2. Adjective. Of a person or people, involved in breeding or riding horses. ¹
3. Adjective. Of a graphic design or typographical treatment which is clunky, unrefined, clumsy. ¹
4. Noun. (childish or endearing) A child's term or name for a horse. ¹
5. Noun. A game where a child rides on the back of another, who is on all fours (also spelled horsey). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Horsy
1. resembling a horse [adj HORSIER, HORSIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsy
Literary usage of Horsy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... liveing at horsy Down, hang'd himself, hut his wife comeing before he was dead
cut him down; he continued melancholly, and Tuesday morning went abroad, ..."
2. Two Cartularies of the Benedictine Abbeys of Muchelney and Athelney in the by Mulchelney Abbey, Edward Harbin Bates Harbin, Athelney Abbey (1899)
"Charter of Ralph de horsy concerning 2s. of yearly rent issuing from his meadow in
... 1 Acknowledgment by Ralph de horsy, son of John Bubbe of horsy, ..."
3. Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public record office by Great Britain Public Record Office (1891)
"By fine of 1 mark, because William de horsy, father of John de horsy, made a fine
at another time for the same charter. MEMBRANE 29. Feb. 16. ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1861)
"There was a handsome gentleman, with big whiskers, who was commercial; and there
was a gentleman with bandy legs, who was horsy. I strongly object to using ..."
5. An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain by Jeremy Collier (1840)
"Whereas it was said, that doctor horsy and his officers murdered Hun in prison
... The author of the Supplication of Beggars pretends, that doctor horsy ..."
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