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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English horsen, horsene, equivalent to horse + -en (“of or belonging to”).
Adjective
horsen (comparative more horsen, superlative most horsen)
- (rare) Of or pertaining to horses; equine
1558, Warde, Alexis' Secr.:Let hym put the Yearth onely, the Floxe, and the Horsen doung.
1773, Thomas Hawkins, Gammer Gurton's needle:For laughter: the horsen dolt at last caught up a club, As though he would have slain the master devil, Belsabub, […]
1907, William Monks, A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas:They were all soon mounted and moving toward West Plains, soon coming to a "horsen" log.
- 1952, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Volume 69:
- farm nearly equal to Thurston's: he complained against William Seburne, who under the name Hopkins had as great a total land interest, that 'Seyborne seyde ffoorde was a bawdy knave and a bawdy harlot a horsen knave and that no truth
Etymology 2
From Middle English horsen, alternative plural of hors, equivalent to horse + -en (plural suffix).
Noun
horsen
- (obsolete) plural of horse
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
horsen
- plural of hors
Middle English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From hors + -en (“plural suffix”).
Noun
horsen
- plural of hors
Etymology 2
From hors + -en (“of or belonging to”).
Adjective
horsen
- Of or pertaining to horses; equine.
Descendants
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Etymology 3
From Old English horsian; equivalent to hors + -en (infinitive suffix).
Verb
horsen
- To supply or provide a horse (for).
- To get or put on horseback.
- (rare, of horses) To copulate.
Usage notes
This verb is mainly used in its past forms.
Conjugation
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
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