Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!alan From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: a horny dilemma Message-ID: <1425@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 20:30:16 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1425 Posted: Mon Oct 29 20:30:16 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Nov-84 02:09:32 EST References: <19@mot.UUCP> Reply-To: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 7 Summary: >All right, you amateur etymologists. Why the slang "horny" meaning >"sexually excited" or "sexually excitable"? Has it got anything to >do with the ancient and widespread "horned" meaning "cuckolded"? >And where did that come from? Any good stories for these? > I'd be interested to know how the word 'randy' got to mean the same thing.