horsiness
English
editEtymology
editNoun
edithorsiness (uncountable)
- The quality of being, or resembling, a horse.
- 1875, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- It shall be all my study for one hour light,
To rose and lavender my horsiness
- Fondness for, or interest in, horses.
References
edit- “horsiness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.