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BAYRAM ERDEM Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
BrE vs AmE
As a dictionary addict, I've got a mania for looking up every single word that I don't know. While I was surfing, I read a sentence ''You look horny in that skirt.'' somewhere and I looked 'horny' up in the dictionary. And my Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dic. suggests that it is a kind of INFORMAL expression in BrE and means sexually attractive. Now my question is how can it be said in AmE to convey the very similiar meaning?
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Don't use this word in polite company. In my experience, it refers to the state of arousal or feelings of the person, not their effect on others. American English: You look **** in your new bikini.
- Don't use this word in polite company.
- In my experience, it refers to the state of arousal or feelings of the person, not their effect on others.
- American English: You look **** in your new bikini.
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Don't use this word in polite company. In my experience, it refers to the state of arousal or feelings of the person, not their effect on others.
American English:
You look **** in your new bikini.
American English:
You look **** in your new bikini.
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My understanding is that it means, in both forms of English, sexually excited (not sexually attractive).
Clive
Clive
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