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sexy, a.|ˈsɛksɪ|
[f. sex n. + -y1.]
a. Concerned with or engrossed in sex.
b. Sexually attractive or provocative, sexually exciting; also fig. Also Comb., as sexy-looking adj.
[1925La Nouvelle Revue Française Jan. 313 Depuis que Joyce a publié un livre qu'ils croient ‘sexy’—cet état d'esprit n'a pas d'équivalent français—on s'en empare..que sa méthode sert de modèle à des gens qui..se disent surréalistes.] 1928Sunday Dispatch 2 Dec. 19/2 Australian audiences..like sex plays, but they mustn't be to sexy. 1934Dylan Thomas Let. 9 May (1966) 120, I shall now attempt to..look all sexy at the mantel-piece. 1935J. T. Farrell Judgment Day ii. 22 He watched the dark sexy-looking waitress scurry with a large tray of food. 1940N. Mitford Pigeon Pie ii. 29 He had been most famous as a singer of those sexy ballads which were adored by our grandparents. 1942[see glamorize v.]. 1947J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus 84 Her voice was throaty and sexy. 1959Housewife Oct. 131/2 Did she keep her figure beautiful and wear sexy nightgowns? 1963A. Ross Australia 63 23 A sexy-looking torch singer breathed huskily into her microphone. 1970Wall St. Jrnl. (Eastern ed.) 22 Sept. 1/6 Corn and soybeans may not sound as sexy as electronics or aerospace. 1975R. Player Let's talk of Graves iii. 80 The seminarists were..casting perplexed eyes to Heaven, the Immaculate Conception being far too sexy to explain to adolescents. 1977New Scientist 17 Mar. 638/1 Expensive, high-technology, politically sexy..small wonder the big dam is popular all round. 1978Rolling Stone 12 Jan. 44 A ‘sexy’ (TV for a good story) news idea. 1981V. Glendinning Edith Sitwell iv. 57 Nancy Cunard—sexy, vital, unpredictable.
Hence ˈsexily adv., ˈsexiness.
1925Glasgow Herald 28 May 4/2 The stallion seems to vanish altogether near the end of the story, and the Welsh groom is put into prominence, with mere ‘sexiness’ thus supplanting magnificent vitality. 1947J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus 83 Wide-set eyes meant sexiness. 1953R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 240 Late party, the latest place, place of lugubrious eroticism, sexily spot-lit. 1971Ink 12 June 6/3 So-called permissiveness, sexiness, moral relaxation have gone as far as they can without beginning to alter radically our civilization. 1978P. Bryers Cat Trapper ix. 61 She curled sexily on a cushion. |
