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Definition: Sweaty |
SweatyAdjective1. Being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his sweating face"; "sweaty clothes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sweaty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Note: Sweaty \Sweat"y\, adjective. [Comparative Sweatier; superlative Sweatiest.]. (references) |
Synonyms: SweatySynonyms: perspiring (adj), sweating (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sweaty |
| English words defined with "sweaty": Sweatily, Sweatiness. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That way lies madness and sweaty palms (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) And here I made you all hot and sweaty (U Turn; writing credit: John Ridley) You know, strange men cramming sweaty wads of cash into strange women's panties (The Pretender; writing credit: Katerina Marinaki) And is there something wrong with my naked sweaty manhood (Undergrads; writing credit: Kid Vegas) I mean, such a sweaty little girl can't be what Ken-san looks for in a woman (Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan; writing credit: Nobuhiro Watsuki) | |
Lyrics | Yo, His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) | |
Clever | Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Live & Sweaty (1991) | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Arthur glanced around him once more, and then down at himself, at the sweaty disheveled clothes he had been lying in the mud in on Thursday morning |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Two men dressed in jeans and sweaty blue shirts came through the willows and looked toward the naked men. |
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Health | At extremely low arterial oxygen (PaO2) levels, patients have rapid heart rates, rapid breathing rates, and they are confused, sweaty, and cyanotic (blue). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sweaty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sweaty" is used about 224 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 224 | 20,130 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sweaty": make sweaty. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sweaty": sweaty-faced, sweaty-fingered, sweaty-palmed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sweaty foot | 232 | jock sweaty | 7 |
sweaty | 133 | jock strap sweaty | 7 |
sweaty hands | 108 | babe sweaty | 6 |
sweaty palm | 97 | sweaty nipples | 6 |
sex sweaty | 37 | cure for sweaty hands | 6 |
sweaty girl | 35 | sweaty body | 6 |
sweaty armpit | 27 | lesbian sweaty | 6 |
sweaty woman | 21 | hot sweaty pussy | 6 |
ball sweaty | 19 | cunt sweaty | 5 |
hot sex sweaty | 19 | hot man sweaty | 5 |
pussy sweaty | 17 | palm sweaty treatment | 5 |
sweaty tit | 12 | foot palm sweaty | 5 |
boy sweaty | 10 | ass sweaty | 5 |
sweaty man | 10 | armpit girl sweaty | 5 |
hot sweaty | 10 | pantie sweaty | 5 |
foot hands sweaty | 8 | stop sweaty hands | 5 |
cure palm sweaty | 8 | sweaty teen | 5 |
sock sweaty | 7 | city sweaty | 4 |
guy sweaty | 7 | butt sweaty | 4 |
bathing busty showering sweating sweaty wet | 7 | foot smelly sweaty | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "sweaty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i mbuluar me djersë, i djersitur. (various references) | |
Arabic | معرق (diaphoretic, grained, marbled, streaky, sudorific, veined, veiny), مبلل بالعرق, تفوح منه رائحة العرق, عرقان (perspiratory). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | запотен (steamy), причиняващ изпотяване, потен (perspiratory, sudoriferous, sweating), подобен на пот, изпотен (sweating). (various references) | |
Chinese | 满身是汗. (various references) | |
Czech | zpocený, propocený. (various references) | |
Finnish | hikinen, hiestynyt (perspiring). (various references) | |
French | qui suent, mouillé de sueur, moite de sueur, maculé de sueur, en sueur, de sueur. (various references) | |
German | schweißig (bleeding, bloody, sweatily). (various references) | |
Greek | ιδρώνων, ιδρωμένοσ, ιδρωμένος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מיוזע (perspiring, sweating), מזיע, שטוף זע". (various references) | |
Hungarian | izzasztó (diaphoretic, sudorific, sweat, sweat band, sweat-cloth), izzadt (perspiring, sweltering), strapás (against the collar, exacting, slavish), izzadó (oozy, perspiring, sweating), fülledt (frowsty, frowzy, muggy, stuffy, sultry), átizzadt. (various references) | |
Indonesian | berpeluh (perspire, transpire), berkeringat (perspire, transpire), apak (moldy, musty). (various references) | |
Italian | sudato. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 汗ばむ (to be sweaty), 汗ばむ (to be sweaty), しくしく泣く (sweaty atmosphere, to blunder, to fail, to fall through, to sob, to weep). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しずしず (sweaty atmosphere), あせばむ (to be sweaty). (various references) | |
Korean | 땀투성이 (Sweatier, Sweatiest). (various references) | |
Manx | ollishagh (sudorific, sweat-causing, sweating), lane ollish (sweating). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eatysway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | suado, trabalhoso (hard-working, painful, toilful, toilsome, uphill), tórrido (scorching, torrid), que faz transpirar, fatigante (grueling, gruelling, laborious, tiresome, tiring, trying, wearing), cheio de suor, abrasador (burning, parching, scorching, torrid, tropic, tropical). (various references) | |
Romanian | obositor (backbreaking, hard, irksome, lingering, operose, painful, restless, strenuous, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, trying, uphill, wearing, wearisome, weary), nãduşit, asudat (clammy, Reeky). (various references) | |
Russian | потный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | znojav. (various references) | |
Spanish | sudado. (various references) | |
Swedish | svettig. (various references) | |
Thai | เปียกเหงื่อ, ซึ่งทำให้เหงื่อออก. (various references) | |
Turkish | su gibi (fast, like water, soaking wet, soppy, watery), zorlu (formidable, intractable, mighty, redoubtable, robust, rugged, sticky, stiff, stringent, thorny, tough), terli, terletici (diaphoretic, sudatory, sudoriferous, sudorific), ter gibi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що спричиню" потіння, важкий (arduous, awkward, baffling, chargeable, complex, difficult, hard, heavy, heavyweight, laborious, leaden, muggy, near, opulent, ponderous, robust, toilful, toilsome, trying, wall eyed, walloping, weighty), пітний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đầy m" hôi (sweated), đẫm m" hôi như m" hôi l m đổ m" hôi. (various references) | |
Welsh | chwyslyd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Sweaty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seaty, seety, sheat, sowetan, swanty, swea, sweart, sweary, sweetey, sweeth, sweety, swelty, zeaty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sweaty" (pronounced swe"tē) |
| 3 | -e" t ē | Cappelletti, confetti, jetty, netty, petit, petti, petty, spaghetti. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-s-t-w-y" | |
-1 letter: sweat, tawse, twaes, waste, wytes, yeast. | |
-2 letters: ates, awes, ayes, east, easy, eats, etas, eyas, sate, seat, seta, staw, stay, stew, stey, stye, swat, sway, taws, teas, tews, twae, twas, tyes, waes, wast, wats, ways, west, wets, wyes, wyte, yaws, yeas, yews. | |
-3 letters: ate, awe, aye, ays, eat, eta, sae, sat, saw, say. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-s-t-w-y" | |
+1 letter: tawneys, wastery. | |
+2 letters: beltways, gateways, getaways, sternway, sweatily, tideways, trawleys, wasteway. | |
+3 letters: entryways, eyewaters, leastways, routeways, seaworthy, sternways, tearaways, wasteways, watcheyes, waterways, yawmeters. | |
+4 letters: flyswatter, lengthways, polywaters, sewability, strawberry, twayblades, wastefully, wyandottes, wyliecoats. | |
+5 letters: flyswatters, steerageway, unseaworthy, yellowtails. | |
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