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From: al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: a horny dilemma
Message-ID: <19@mot.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 00:01:37 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  3 00:01:37 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Oct-84 00:40:10 EST
Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Phoenix AZ
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--to the (mythical?) line-eater--

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?


                     Alan Filipski
                     Motorola Microsystems, 
                     Tempe, AZ  USA

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