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Sweaty

Definition: Sweaty

Sweaty

Adjective

1. 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: Sweaty

Synonyms: perspiring (adj), sweating (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sweaty

English words defined with "sweaty": Sweatily, Sweatiness. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sweaty

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Sweaty

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cool Characters With Sweaty Palms (reference)

  • Dynamite Answers to Interview Questions: No More Sweaty Palms! (reference)

  • Full Body Contact: Sexy, Sweaty Men of Sport (reference)

  • Sweaty Palms (reference)

  • Your Amazing Body: From Headaches to Sweaty Feet and Everything in Between (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Sweaty

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Use in Literature: Sweaty

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sweaty

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Sweaty

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%22420,130

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

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Expressions: Sweaty

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sweaty

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

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.

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Modern Translation: Sweaty

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.

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Misspellings: Sweaty

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).

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Rhyming with "Sweaty"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sweaty" (pronounced swe"tē)
3-e" t ēCappelletti, confetti, jetty, netty, petit, petti, petty, spaghetti.

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

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Anagrams: Sweaty

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.

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. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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