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Definition of "horsy" [hors•y]

  • Of, relating to, or resembling horses or a horse. (adjective)
  • Devoted to horses and horsemanship: the horsy set. (adjective)
  • Large and clumsy: illustrations that looked horsy on the page. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "horsy" in a sentence
  • "Everyone, who was anybody in the "horsy" set, was there."
  • "Elsewhere (i. 55-62) the 'horsy' youth is spoken of as worse than the husband who connives at his wife's dishonour and pockets the reward of her shame."
  • ""Little Lord Fauntleroy," and afterwards as a "horsy" young man in a _matinée_ in which Violet Vanbrugh appeared."