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horsey

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hors·y also hors·ey  (hôrs)
adj. hors·i·er, hors·i·est
1. Of, relating to, or resembling horses or a horse.
2. Devoted to horses and horsemanship: the horsy set.
3. Large and clumsy: illustrations that looked horsy on the page.

horsi·ly adv.
horsi·ness n.

horsey or horsy
Adjective
[horsier, horsiest]
1. of or relating to horses: a horsey smell
2. devoted to horses: the horsey set
3. like a horse: a horsey face
Translations
horsey [ˈhɔːsɪ] adj (col) [person] → aficionado a los caballos
horsey [ˈhɔːsɪ] adjféru(e) d'équitation or de cheval; [appearance] → chevalin(e)
horsey [ˈhɔːsɪ] horse adjpferdenärrisch;
(appearance) → pferdeähnlich
horsey [ˈhɔːsɪ] adj (col) [person] → che adora i cavalli; [appearance] → cavallino/a, da cavallo


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The driver was a young man of three-or four-and-twenty, with a cigar between his teeth; wearing a dandy cap, drab jacket, breeches of the same hue, white neckcloth, stick-up collar, and brown driving-gloves--in short, he was the handsome, horsey young buck who had visited Joan a week or two before to get her answer about Tess.
Hullo, Mahbub Ali' said a young Assistant District Traffic Superintendent who was waiting to go down the line - a tall, tow- haired, horsey youth in dingy white linen.
And so far as could be seen from the road - which it stood too near - the house itself appeared to be the one thing that the horsey purchaser had left much as he found it.
 
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