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单词 horsey
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Definition of horsey in English:

horsey

(also horsy)
adjectivehorsiest, horsierˈhɔːsiˈhɔrsi
  • 1Of or resembling a horse.

    马的,似马的

    she had a long horsey face

    她长着一张长长的马脸。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His ‘lady friend’ is skinny and kinda horsey: he had a crush on her for about six years prior to us going out.
    • Illequis buried her face in his neck and drank in his horsy smell.
    • I took her muzzle in my hand and kissed her, breathing in that horsey smell.
    • He feels his horsey, ruined teeth are betrayed by his grin.
    • Smelling horsy and looking a bit grubby doesn't stop me from touring the vineyards on the way home, Babich, Nobilos, Coopers Creek and Collards to name a few, or having lunch at one of the many top restaurants that have grown up next to them.
    • She's a little horsy in the way she walks and carries herself.
    • Aside from your horsey, toothless grin, your plain ugly mug, and your bald head, you're actually a decent-looking guy.
    • The warden was a tall, square woman with broad shoulders and a horsey face.
    • He's using all his techniques to try to engage this slightly horsey gorgeous girl but she is steadfastly refusing to acknowledge him.
    • Giving a proper horsy sigh, Fuenar stamped his foot in impatience.
    • Albit smiled a sort of horsy smile, and retrieved the meat from the fire by grabbing the stick from Felicity's hand with his teeth.
    • ‘Broadway Danny Ricks,’ his wife announced, revealing a horsy set of uppers yellowed by nicotine.
    • The horsy woman behind us jars our contemplation with another braying laugh.
  • 2Concerned with or devoted to horses or horse racing.

    关心马(或赛马)的;致力于马(或赛马)的

    the horsey fraternity

    爱马兄弟会。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Rover 4x4s may no longer be the choice of aid agencies and oil prospectors, but the Freelander successfully avoids the stuffy and slightly horsy image while promising off-road possibilities.
    • More horsey activity for me yesterday as I attended the launch of the 2005 Irish National Hunt Festival in the gorgeous Guinness Storehouse.
    • The Bridleway - a horsy Pennine Way - will, when it is completed, stretch 350 miles from Middleton Top in Derbyshire, through Lancashire, the Yorkshire Dales and Cumbria, to Northumberland.
    • I thought all the rest of it was silly but a lot of my horsy friends spent good money to take courses in this procedure and get licensed to teach it to others.
    • The term ‘lads’ is a horsy term that is used mainly among the horsy fraternity.
    • It provides various horsy excursions around the area.
    • He must be a very good liar, he's not horsy at all and all these letters kept coming for him from the British Horse Society.
    • I have never been much of a horsy person though I admit that I enjoyed Black Beauty and once wanted a pony for my birthday.
    • Marriage came in 1995 after they rekindled a long-term, informal friendship, forged in the horsey world through which both strode, he as a jockey, she in the three-day eventing arena.
    • He was a tall, silver-haired, honey-voiced criminal lawyer who drove a Mercedes, lived in a big house in a horsy Nairobi suburb, and sent his children abroad to college.
    • Apparently, concerns over whether there will be enough conveniences for the horsey set dominated discussions at this week's Micklegate ward committee meeting.
    • At Hermes, Gaultier moved away from the horsy theme of his first collection, concentrating on scarf prints and on sweet organza blouses in toile prints worn with jeans and armfuls of bangles.
    • As I mentioned briefly last week, I met up with a Patrick Curran, a horsey man who runs, along with his wife, Helena the Capall Dubh bed and breakfast establishment in Green Street, Daingean.
    • Firstly you must try to speak to local horsy people, they often have a good knowledge of the schools in the area and will tell you which ones are good and which ones to avoid.
    • Years ago, when I covered the world of the well-heeled horsey set, I would on occasion visit such ‘farms.’
    • And the favouritism that he shows to the Kildare horsy set is now so transparent that it has become the butt of jokes.
    • Some of them have an animal, although not necessarily a horsey, theme and the display on the large dresser certainly gives the shop a charming, quaint feel.
    • And his lead will be followed by others, with another four horsey movies already planned over the coming months.
    • A well-known man in Listowel horsy circles, Paddy wore a beige birdseye check jacket with matching tan trousers and a pale blue shirt with tan suede shoes.
    • She has rubbed shoulders with some very well known people from the horsy world - people like Pat Eddery and Kieran Fallon.

Derivatives

  • horsily

  • adverbˈhɔːsɪliˈhɔrsəli
    • In a way that resembles a horse.

      he laughed horsily
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Zinn's school-masterly style is idiosyncratic: thus we have, for example, a brief discourse on falling off a log, a corny joke about a verb no, and instructions to the student to translate passages horsily, guardedly, pontifically, adventurously, uncontrollably etc., each adverb appropriate to the subject matter of the narrative.
      • Being tedious and contemptible is left to the couple beside us who spend the entire set standing two feet away from the band bellowing horsily at each other.
      • We laugh horsily as Lindsey Lohan creeps past with a small entourage, and avoids anyone's eyes, lest she is (oh horror of all horrors) recognized.
  • horsiness

  • noun ˈhɔːsɪnɪsˈhɔrsinəs
    mass noun
    • 1Concern with or devotion to horses or horse racing.

      关心马(或赛马)的;致力于马(或赛马)的

      the town is a thriving hub of horsiness
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Although it had been a few years since he'd last sat astride a horse, his horsiness had come back to him and it now seemed quite natural.
      • In the lead role, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham affected a horsiness perfectly suited to this tomboy-like role.
      • Arthur settled here in the '70s when she had two long-running television hits in a row, Maude and The Golden Girls, and remains a little perplexed by the tweedy horsiness of the area.
      • there was a slight horsiness about her mouth and nose
    • 2The quality of resembling a horse.

      马的,似马的

Rhymes

gorsy, saucy

Definition of horsey in US English:

horsey

(also horsy)
adjectiveˈhɔrsiˈhôrsē
  • 1Of or resembling a horse.

    马的,似马的

    wide eyes and big, horsey teeth
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Illequis buried her face in his neck and drank in his horsy smell.
    • The horsy woman behind us jars our contemplation with another braying laugh.
    • His ‘lady friend’ is skinny and kinda horsey: he had a crush on her for about six years prior to us going out.
    • Albit smiled a sort of horsy smile, and retrieved the meat from the fire by grabbing the stick from Felicity's hand with his teeth.
    • He feels his horsey, ruined teeth are betrayed by his grin.
    • Giving a proper horsy sigh, Fuenar stamped his foot in impatience.
    • Smelling horsy and looking a bit grubby doesn't stop me from touring the vineyards on the way home, Babich, Nobilos, Coopers Creek and Collards to name a few, or having lunch at one of the many top restaurants that have grown up next to them.
    • The warden was a tall, square woman with broad shoulders and a horsey face.
    • ‘Broadway Danny Ricks,’ his wife announced, revealing a horsy set of uppers yellowed by nicotine.
    • I took her muzzle in my hand and kissed her, breathing in that horsey smell.
    • Aside from your horsey, toothless grin, your plain ugly mug, and your bald head, you're actually a decent-looking guy.
    • He's using all his techniques to try to engage this slightly horsey gorgeous girl but she is steadfastly refusing to acknowledge him.
    • She's a little horsy in the way she walks and carries herself.
  • 2Concerned with or devoted to horses or horse racing.

    关心马(或赛马)的;致力于马(或赛马)的

    the horsey fraternity

    爱马兄弟会。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Bridleway - a horsy Pennine Way - will, when it is completed, stretch 350 miles from Middleton Top in Derbyshire, through Lancashire, the Yorkshire Dales and Cumbria, to Northumberland.
    • And his lead will be followed by others, with another four horsey movies already planned over the coming months.
    • The term ‘lads’ is a horsy term that is used mainly among the horsy fraternity.
    • At Hermes, Gaultier moved away from the horsy theme of his first collection, concentrating on scarf prints and on sweet organza blouses in toile prints worn with jeans and armfuls of bangles.
    • As I mentioned briefly last week, I met up with a Patrick Curran, a horsey man who runs, along with his wife, Helena the Capall Dubh bed and breakfast establishment in Green Street, Daingean.
    • And the favouritism that he shows to the Kildare horsy set is now so transparent that it has become the butt of jokes.
    • Some of them have an animal, although not necessarily a horsey, theme and the display on the large dresser certainly gives the shop a charming, quaint feel.
    • He was a tall, silver-haired, honey-voiced criminal lawyer who drove a Mercedes, lived in a big house in a horsy Nairobi suburb, and sent his children abroad to college.
    • Firstly you must try to speak to local horsy people, they often have a good knowledge of the schools in the area and will tell you which ones are good and which ones to avoid.
    • Marriage came in 1995 after they rekindled a long-term, informal friendship, forged in the horsey world through which both strode, he as a jockey, she in the three-day eventing arena.
    • She has rubbed shoulders with some very well known people from the horsy world - people like Pat Eddery and Kieran Fallon.
    • A well-known man in Listowel horsy circles, Paddy wore a beige birdseye check jacket with matching tan trousers and a pale blue shirt with tan suede shoes.
    • It provides various horsy excursions around the area.
    • Rover 4x4s may no longer be the choice of aid agencies and oil prospectors, but the Freelander successfully avoids the stuffy and slightly horsy image while promising off-road possibilities.
    • More horsey activity for me yesterday as I attended the launch of the 2005 Irish National Hunt Festival in the gorgeous Guinness Storehouse.
    • Years ago, when I covered the world of the well-heeled horsey set, I would on occasion visit such ‘farms.’
    • I thought all the rest of it was silly but a lot of my horsy friends spent good money to take courses in this procedure and get licensed to teach it to others.
    • He must be a very good liar, he's not horsy at all and all these letters kept coming for him from the British Horse Society.
    • Apparently, concerns over whether there will be enough conveniences for the horsey set dominated discussions at this week's Micklegate ward committee meeting.
    • I have never been much of a horsy person though I admit that I enjoyed Black Beauty and once wanted a pony for my birthday.
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