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▪ I. steamy, a.|ˈstiːmɪ|
[f. steam n. + -y.]
1. Consisting of, abounding in, or emitting steam; resembling steam.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies xxvii. §7. 247 Were they not continually stuffed and clogged with grosse vapours of steamy meates. 1785Cowper Task iv. 39 While the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column. 1818Milman Samor 97 So they bravely strove For the bleak freedom of their steamy moors. 1866Livingstone Last Jrnls. (1874) I. 21 The steamy, smothering air. 1899Edin. Rev. Oct. 288 The climate is steamy and enervating.
fig.1841Carlyle Ess., Baillie (1857) IV. 232 Baillie is the true newspaper; he is to be used and studied like one. Taken up in this way, his steamy indistinctness abates.
2. Covered with condensed vapour. (Cf. steam v. 5 and 9 d.) Path. Of the cornea: Covered or apparently covered with condensed vapour.
1869G. Lawson Dis. Eye (1874) 30 The cornea grows dull and steamy. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 488 Both corneæ continued steamy.
3. fig. Salacious; lustful, sexy, ‘torrid’. Cf. hot a. 6 c.
1970Daily Tel. 19 June 7/4 Making Marilyn Roberts semi-nude curiously lessens the eroticism of one originally steamy scene. 1976M. Machlin Pipeline xii. 139 Once he remembered a steamy necking session out in the middle of a field of oats. 1980R. McInerny Second Vespers (1981) xv. 108 It was a moral outlook, one that had never..been disturbed by the steamy fiction that was her steady diet.
Hence ˈsteamily adv.; ˈsteaminess.
1857Livingstone Trav. S. Africa xxviii. 578, I myself felt an oppressive steaminess in the atmosphere. 1880I. L. Bird Japan I. 128 The temperature is from 72° to 86°, and in the steaminess, needles rust. 1909English Rev. Mar. 734, I became steamily hot.
▪ II. steamy
var. steamie. |