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HORNDOG
Definition of HORNDOG
noun
A person (particularly a man) who is fixated on sex.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From the sexual sense of horn (late 18c. slang expression to have the horn, from which came horny) + dog (“sexually aggressive man”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HORNDOG · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HORNDOG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 34, 23 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 34, 23 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HORNDOG starts with H and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read DGHNOOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 34
Could you have found HORNDOG?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 34 - and most players walked straight past it.
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