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Sexy

Definition: Sexy

Sexy

Adjective

1. Marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes".

2. Exciting sexual desire.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Sexy

Synonyms: aphrodisiac (adj), aphrodisiacal (adj). (additional references)
Antonyms: anaphrodisiac (adj), unsexy (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sexy

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Sexuality

Adjective: sexy, erotic, sexual, carnal, sensual.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sexy

Specialty definitions using "sexy": Thats a nice one. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Sexy" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (dishy, sexy), French (sexy), German (sexy), Italian (seductive, sexy), Spanish (oomph, sexy).

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Modern Usage: Sexy

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's not sexy, but it's got teeth (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

So if he can't move, how's he gonna sit down, George? I was a stand-up tomato: a juicy, sexy, beefsteak tomato (Tootsie; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Don McGuire)

I'm dead sexy. Look at my sexy body (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Are we scraping Pete Punter with sexy scoops (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

Sure, they both got it, but Chimpy gotta jump his nuts around to get it. The shy cheetah moves with total nonchalance, stickin' it to them in his sexy, slow strut (The Basketball Diaries; writing credit: Bryan Goluboff)

Lyrics

I’m too sexy for my shirt too sexy for my shirt (I'm Too Sexy; performing artist: Right Said Fred)

Hey sexy baby (I Care 4 U; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Such a sexy,sexy pretty little thing (Butterfly; performing artist: Crazy Town)

The sexy little things you do (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo)

Tonight your gonna find a sexy chica thats gonna (Jumpin', Jumpin' (So So Def Remix); performing artist: Destiny's Child)

Movie/TV Titles

Dead Sexy (2001)

Sexy Cat (1972)

Jenny and Her Sexy Mother (1972)

Some Like It Sexy (1969)

Agente 00 Sexy (1968)

Song Titles

YOU SEXY THING  (performing artist: Hot Chocolate )

Sexy Ways (performing artist: Lonnie Mack)

I'm Too Sexy (performing artist: Right Said Fred)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sexy

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  • Suze Randall's Super Sexy Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (reference)

  • Girls Gone Wild: Sexy Sorority Sweethearts (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sexy

Illustrations:
Sexy

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Computer Images:
Sexy

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Digital Photo Gallery: Sexy
 

"Berlin - sexy shop" by Sandro Petri
Commentary: "Peppone e don camillo!!!."
"Cruiser Bike 3" by Chris Sharp
Commentary: "Another shot of the entire bike. Sexy huh?."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Sexy

AuthorQuotation

Emo Philips

My ex-girlfriend was very sexy. She reminded me of the Sphinx because she was very mysterious and eternal and solid and her nose was shot off by French soldiers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Sexy

TitleAuthorQuote

Last Chance To See

Douglas Adams

We would be eating chicken, which was sexy and which we preferred

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Spoken Usage: Sexy

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Suzanne Somers

I don't think men are intimidated by bright women. I think they like it, and I think they find it sexy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sexy

"Sexy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sexy" is used about 649 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%64910,069

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Sexy

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "sexy": sexy-looking, sexy-sounding.

Ending with "sexy": bi-sexy, highly-sexy, super-sexy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sexy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sexy

21,380

sexy secretary

1,003

sexy woman

6,864

sexy swim wear

950

sexy lingerie

5,651

sexy foot

915

sexy man

3,856

sexy cartoon

902

sexy bikini

3,830

sexy blonde

852

sexy teen

3,320

sexy underwear

824

sexy picture

3,267

sexy ass

757

sexy model

3,158

sexy swimsuit

736

sexy clothing

2,451

sexy pantie

593

sexy costume

2,350

sexy lesbian

592

sexy leg

2,345

sexy ads

576

sexy babe

2,168

sexy nurse

565

sexy photo

1,858

sexy housewife

555

sexy lady

1,805

sexy e card

554

sexy dress

1,741

sexy guy

551

sexy story

1,577

sexy black woman

546

sexy shoes

1,502

free sexy picture

506

sexy wife

1,400

sexy high heel

491

sexy wallpaper

1,350

sexy stocking

479

sexy thong

1,007

sexy asian

478
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sexy

Language Translations for "sexy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

nxitës (abetter, abettor, aphrodisiac, cordial, encouraging, excitant, fillip, fire brand, fomenter, hortative, hortatory, impellent, incendiary, incentive, inciting, inflammatory, instigator, lively, mainspring, piquant, poignant, promoter, provocative, sponsor, stimulant, stimulating, warmonger), joshës (alluring, attractive, captivating, charming, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, luscious, seducer, seductive, tempter, tempting, winning, winsome), erotik (amative, erogenous, erotic). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مثير للغريزة الجنسية, ‏مثير للشهوة (erotic, salacious), ‏ودي (amiable, bluff, brotherly, cordial, fraternal, friendly, genial, good natured, heartfelt, hearty, intimate, kind, neighbor, neighborly, neighbour, neighbourly, nice, outgoing, pally, sympathetic, warm, well disposed), ‏جنسي (erotic, sex, sexist, sexual). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сексуален (carnal, sensual, sex, sexual), сексапилен (glamorous, glamourous, hot, sexed), еротичен (erotic, steamy, warm), порнографски (filthy, libidinous, obscene, pornographic, salacious). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

性感 (oomph, sexiness). (various references)

   

Czech

  

sexy (dishy), erotický (erotic). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

شهوت انگیز (Lascivious, Luscious, Lusty, Voluptuous), دارای احساسات شهوانی . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

seksikäs. (various references)

   

French

  

sympa, sexy. (various references)

   

German

  

sexy, scharf (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acridly, acrimonious, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, clear, closely, cool, cracking, cutting, discerning, drastic, ferocious, fierce, fiery, hard, harsh, highly seasoned, horny, hot, incisive, keen, keenly, live, lurid, marked, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, poignant, poignantly, precise, pungent, pungently, quick, Randy, raw, razor-sharp, savage, scathing, scathingly, severe, sharp, sharp-edged, sharply, shrewd, shrill, sibilant, slashing, spanking, strict, strong, tangy, tart, tough, trenchant, twangy, vehement, venomous, virulent), knackig (crisp, crunchy, juicy, tasty), erotisch (erotic, erotically), brünstig (ardent, fervent, on heat, rutting). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ελκυστικόσ προσ το αντίθετον φύλον, λάγνοσ (concupiscent, lecher, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lustful, prurient, salacious). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ארוטי (erotic), סקסי (sexual). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szexis (hot), szexi (hot, luscious). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

seksi (section), bahenol (nicely shaped, voluptuous). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sexy (seductive), attraente (attractive, catching, catchy, charming, cute, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, inviting, killing, likable, likeable, lovely, taking, winsome). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

色っぽい (amorous, erotic, voluptuous). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

モテモテ , せいてき (her child, legal wife, main family, political opponent, sex, sexual, static, well-being), かんのうてき (sensual, voluptuous), いろっぽい (amorous, erotic, voluptuous), セクシー . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

섹시한. (various references)

   

Manx

  

er cannoo (amorous, aroused, lustful, sexually precocious), cannyssagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exysay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sensual (amative, bestial, boarish, brutish, carnal, concupiscent, epicurean, fleshly, goatish, high-sounding, incontinent, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lubricous, lustful, sensual, sensuous, unreserved, voluptuous, wanton), excitante (burning, excitant, exciter, exciting, provocative, rousing, whet), atraente (appealing, attractable, attractive, bewitching, captivating, catch, charming, cute, dinky, engaging, enthralling, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lovely, magnetic, nice, nice-looking, pinup, prepossessing, pretty, striking, stunner, taking, tempting, winning, winsome, yummy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сексуальный (raunchy, sexual). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

seksi, privlačan (alluring, arresting, attractive, catchy, charming, engaging, fetching, foxy, personable, prepossessing, toothsome, winning, winsome). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sexual (generative, sex, sexual). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sexig (hot, juicy). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ที่กระตุ้นความสนใจ, ที่ดึงดูดทางเพศ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

seksi kimse (erotic, hot stuff), seksi (hot), cinsel istek uyandıran (erogenic, erogenous, erotic, sex, sultry, voluptuous), çekici (alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, comely, desirable, endearing, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, haul, haulier, inviting, juicy, magnetic, nubile, prepossessing, ravishing, sapid, seductive, spicy, stunning, taking, tempting, toothsome, tow truck, towing truck, tractive, tractor, winsome, witching, wrecker). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

надто сексуальний. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

khiêu dâm (pornographic), gợi tình (erotic). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sexy

Derivations

Words ending with "sexy": unsexy. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sexy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ccxxi, cxxi, dexi, dexy, exy, hexy, rexy, saxi, saxu, saxy, Sdex, Seaya, secti, secty, seex, seey, Seeya, seggs, seggxy, seksy, semy, seox, sery, sety, sevy, sexa, Sexby, Sexe, sexey, sexi, sexie, sexim, sexit, sexo, sexs, sexxy, Seym, sezy, sfx, shex, siex, sixi, skex, slex, smey, soex, soxy, soyx, stex, sxee, sxei, sxek, sxem, sxen, sxep, sxer, sxey, sxez, sxy, vexy, wexi, zex, zey. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sexy"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sexy" (pronounced se"ksē)
3-k s ēapoplexy, boxy, doxie, doxy, epoxy, folksy, foxy, galaxy, heterodoxy, hydroxy, maxi, Moxie, Nixie, orthodoxy, oxy, pixie, proxy, taxi, waxy.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sexy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-s-x-y"

-1 letter: sex, yes.

-2 letters: es, ex, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-s-x-y"
 

+1 letter: pyxes.

 

+2 letters: desoxy, hexyls, lynxes, onyxes, oryxes, oxeyes, pyxies, sexily, unsexy, xylems, xylose, xyster.

 

+3 letters: calyxes, hyraxes, oxygens, oxysome, pyxides, xylenes, xyloses, xysters.

 

+4 letters: bombyxes, coccyxes, dyslexia, dyslexic, ethoxyls, larynxes, oxysomes, oxytones, pyrexias, sexology, sextuply, sexually, sixpenny, skyboxes, styraxes, syntaxes, syrinxes, xystuses.

 

+5 letters: acetoxyls, apteryxes, asexually, asphyxies, dyslexias, dyslexics, excusably, expressly, extensity, hypotaxes, myxedemas, myxocytes, oxyphiles, pharynxes, pyroxenes, sexlessly, sexuality, taxpayers, xylidines.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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