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sporty, a. colloq. or slang.|ˈspɔətɪ|
[f. sport n.1]
1. Sportsmanlike, sportsmanly; sporting.
1889Daily News 11 Mar. 2/3 The very ‘sporty’ little venture was watched with much interest. 1893Weekly Express & Mail (N.Y.) 28 June, This is the ‘sporty’ way to capture them, but the professional frog hunters go for their prey..with scoop nets and long poles. 1897Outing XXX. 484/2 It's awfully sporty of them to lend fresh ponies to their opponents.
Comb.1896Gody's Mag. Feb. 152/1 A sporty-looking drummer.
2. Of a motor car: of a racing type; resembling a sports car in appearance or performance.
1962A. Lurie Love & Friendship xii. 228 Traded in his Pontiac got him one of those new Valiants,..kind of sporty for a man his age. 1966Economist 9 July p. xvii/2 Chevrolet's Corvair only began to sell when the Monza version was introduced after a few months, with bucket seats and a ‘sporty’ reputation, but precious little else for the extra $250. 1972Sunday Express 9 Jan. 5/1 Performance is distinctly sporty. Its top gear acceleration of 40–60 in 9 seconds beats anything else in the class.
Sense 2 in Dict. becomes 2 b. Add: [2.] a. Of clothes, etc.: suitable for outdoor sports or for informal wear; designed in a casual sporting style; hence, sportingly fashionable or stylish. orig. U.S.
1913Dialect Notes IV. 22 Sporty, attractive, stylish. Usage general in Nebraska. ‘I think my shoes are real sporty.’ ‘What a sporty dress!’ 1946E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 5 Joe Mott is a Negro, about fifty years old, brown-skinned, stocky, wearing a light suit that had once been flashily sporty but is now about to fall apart. 1965P. O'Donnell Modesty Blaise vi. 67 The dress here was casual and sporty, the people mostly young to middle-aged. 1984Footwear News 4 June 35/2 Domestic resources also said they would focus on casual, sporty, flat and low-heeled shoes. |