Steamy

Definition: Steamy

Steamy

Adjective

1. Hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather".

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

Date "steamy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Synonyms: Steamy

Heat

Sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular, steamy; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking. Verb: baking .

Crosswords: Steamy

Wow, Joey, that's a steamy picture (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

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

Books

• Over the Steamy Swamp (reference)

• Steamy Coupons (reference)

• Steamy Dreamer; The Saga of Dr. Hartely O. Baker and the Baker Steam Motor Car (reference)

• Too Late to Resist: Steamy Clinches from the Pulp Classics (Prion Pulp Classics Postcard Books) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expressions using "steamy": be steamy ♦ steamy piece. Additional references.

Beginning with "steamy": steamy-ish, steamy-shrill.

Ending with "steamy": would-be-steamy.

Albanian

me avull, i lagësht (damp, dank, humid, moist, sloppy, sour, squashy, wet), avullues (evaporative). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشبع بالبخار, ‏إغرائي (erotic), ‏بخاري. (various references)

Bulgarian 

врящ (ebullient), запотен (sweaty), еротичен (erotic, sexy, warm), парообразен (vaporous, vapory, vapoury), парен (steam, vapor, vaporous, vapour), изпаряващ се. (various references)

Czech

zamžený (moist), plný páry. (various references)

Dutch

beslaan (become steamy, comprise, dim, fill, fit out, garnish, get blurred, get covered with, get dim, occupy, shoe, take, take up, trim). (various references)

Esperanto

vaporkovriĝi (become steamy, get covered with, get dim), nebuliĝi (become steamy, get covered with, get dim). (various references)

Farsi 

پرحرارت (Spunky), پربخار, تحریک شده , شبیه بخار, دارای بخارمه الود. (various references)

Finnish

höyryävä (steaming). (various references)

French

plein de vapeur, embué, érotique. (various references)

German

dampfig (vaporous). (various references)

Greek 

νεφελώδησ (cloudy, nebulous, nubilous, overcast), ατμώδησ (vaporish, vaporous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מאו�"�" (stewed), מ�"ביל (foggy, vaporous), א�"י (misty, vaporous), �"ביל (humid, sultry, vapoury). (various references)

Hungarian

párás (damp, hazy, smoky, vaporous, vapourish), nedves (clammy, dank, humid, lush, moist, oozing, oozy, sammy, sloppy, soggy, wet), ködös (brumous, dirty, faint, foggy, hazy, misty, muddy, nebulous, turbid, woolly), gőzös (steamboat, steamer), gőzölgő (reeking). (various references)

Italian

coperto di vapore, che esala vapore, appannato (blear, cloudy, dim, dull, matt). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ぺて�"師 (crook, flowers heads of beefsteak plant, fluency, fluent, imposter, not soggy, steamy hot food, swindler, to babble, to be pleased with oneself, to brawl, to chuckle to oneself, to grumble, to murmur, to prate, to prattle, to spatter, warm). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほかほか (steamy hot food, warm). (various references)

Manx

gaalagh (steaming, vaporous), druightagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

eamystay.(various references)

Portuguese

vaporoso (fumy, vaporescense, vaporous, vapourish, vapoury), fumegante (fumy, reeky), cheio de vapor. (various references)

Romanian

vaporos (aery, airy, ethereal, fluffy, gaseous, hazy, vaporous, vapoury, woolly), aburos (foggy, hazy, Reeky, steam-engendering, vaporous, vapoury). (various references)

Russian 

влажный (damp, dank, dewy, humid, madid, moist, muggy, poachy, wet), запотевший (sweaty, weeping), парообразный (vaporous), испаряющийся. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pun pare (vapid, vapoury). (various references)

Spanish

vaporoso (hazily, hazy, vaporous, vapourish, vapoury), lleno de vapor, humeante (Reeky, smoky, steaming), empañado (blurred, cloudy, dim, faint, filmy, misty, tarnished). (various references)

Swedish

erotisk (amatory, erotic), ångande. (various references)

Turkish

buharlı (vaporous, with steam power), buğulu (misted over, vaporous). (various references)

Ukrainian

схожий на пару, пароподібний (vaporous, vapoury). (various references)

Vietnamese 

như hơi đầy hơi nước, ẩm thấp bốc hơi. (various references)

Misspellings

"Steamy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: otamy, Setnam, ssteam, steamie, stemi, steum. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mateys, mayest.

-1 letter: etyma, mates, matey, mayst, meats, meaty, satem, seamy, steam, tames, teams, yeast.

-2 letters: ates, ayes, east, easy, eats, etas, eyas, maes, mast, mate, mats, mays, meat, mesa, meta, same, sate, seam, seat, seta, stay, stem, stey, stye, tame, tams, team, teas, tyes, yams, yeas.

-3 letters: ate, aye, ays, eat, ems, eta, mae, mas.

+1 letter: amnesty, majesty, mastery, streamy.

+2 letters: amethyst, atemoyas, daytimes, homestay, masterly, mesnalty, payments, steamily, taleysim.

+3 letters: amethysts, asymmetry, asymptote, dynamites, erythemas, estimably, homestays, martyries, mateyness, megabytes, methylals, methylase, monastery, mycetomas, oysterman, paymaster, playmates, playtimes, safetyman, safetymen, shantymen, spymaster, sympetaly, tomalleys, tympanies, tyramines, vasectomy, vestryman, yachtsmen, yawmeters, yokemates.

+4 letters: ambrotypes, amebocytes, amnestying, antonymies, ascomycete, astrometry, asymmetric, asymptotes, copayments, cyclamates, cysteamine, dynamiters, embayments, macrocytes, manifestly, martyrizes, mastectomy, metaphysic, metastably, metaxylems, methylases, methylates, mistakenly, molybdates, myasthenia, myasthenic, myeloblast, myopathies, mystagogue, mythmakers, nematocyst, paymasters, repayments, segmentary, somatotype, spymasters, stepfamily, sympathies, sympathise, sympathize, sympatries, systematic, tympanites, yardmaster.