sweatyadj.

Brit.

/ˈswɛti/, U.S.

/ˈswɛdi/

Forms: Middle English swety, 1500s swettie, 1500s–1600s sweatie, 1600s sweatty, swetty, 1600s– sweaty.

Etymology: < sweat n. + -y suffix¹.

1. Causing sweat:

Thesaurus »

a. Heating, excessively hot.

b. Toilsome, laborious.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome

soreOE

workfulOE

hardOE

torc1175

beswinkfulc1230

heavya1325

sweatyc1374

travailousa1382

laboriousa1393

laborousc1405

winful1443

painfulc1480

toilous1530

operousa1538

drudging1548

travailsome1549

laboursome1551

moilingc1566

toilsome?1570

toilful1573

sweating1592

insudate1609

sweatfula1618

moliminous1656

operose1659

swinking1693

schleppy1978

c1374 G. Chaucer Former Age 28 The tyme..Þat men fyrst dede hir swety bysynesse To grobbe vp metal.

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Piv Spare no Sulphurous jest that may come out of that sweatie Forge of thine.

1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. ii. sig. C3 The life of Industries first fruite is somewhat sweatie, and painful.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 76 What might be toward that this sweaty march Doth make the night ioynt labourer with the day.

1641 Protestation Protested 10 Witnesse Dr. Hals sweatty discourses.

1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 21 Captain Zuinglius, and John Calvin, converted more with Swords and Guns, then with their sweaty Preaching.

1709 M. Prior 1st Hymn Callimachus 85 Those who labor The sweaty Forge.

1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad ix. 370 And measured ecchoing shouts their sweaty toils attend.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 9 60 The sugar..which the hands of the sooterkin negro Reared..in the island of sweaty Jamaica.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII xlviii. 79 'Tis..a pity..To lose those best months in a sweaty city.

1908 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 770/1 Thank Heaven he's let us alone this sweaty afternoon.

c. Severe, demanding. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > strictness > [adjective] > exacting

exigeant1789

exigent1790

exactive1822

exacting1847

sweaty1919

ball-busting1978

1919 A. Lunn Loose Ends iii. 27 ‘It's a sweaty house for new men.’ Cluff shook his head sadly. ‘Yes, it's a hard life for new men.’

1919 A. Lunn Loose Ends xiii. 118 These Blues are sometimes rather sweaty. They think it lip if you cut your work for a man who's been a Blue.

1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 85 I'm not trying to be sweaty or anything, but, um—just out of interest—how long have you known De Forest?

a. Covered with sweat; wet, moist, or stained with sweat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [adjective] > covered or damp with sweat

swotyc893

besweatc1275

forswatc1325

wetc1400

all on a watera1438

foaming1590

sweaty1590

sweated1654

deliquescent1815

perspiry1860

sticky1884

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. F6^v Hee..bayes His sweatie forehead in the breathing wynd.

1591 E. Spenser Daphnaïda iv When the wearie Sun After his dayes long labour drew to rest, And sweatie steeds now hauing ouer run The compast skie, gan water in the west.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 245 The rabblement..threw vppe their sweatie Night-cappes.

1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 124 His sweaty pumps are in my nose still.

1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. N. Hasselgren Swedish Pan in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 188 The plants ought not to be handled by sweaty hands.

1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. xviii. 148 The groans of the slaves,..their sweaty brows, wan eyes, and galled backs.

b. Of persons: Laborious, toiling.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > toiling

swinking?c1225

travailinga1398

drudging1548

toiling1552

toilsome1566

toilful1596

sweaty1603

droiling1607

carkingc1620

laboriferous1656

fagging1665

moiling1692

tewing1855

maulinga1864

bullocking1900

1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. C4^v The swetty hinde (that digs the rent he paies thee out of the entrailes of the earth) he is sent for.

1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida ii. iv. sig. L2^v These glittering Jems had been By sweaty Labourers dig'd.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 434 Thither..A sweatie Reaper from his Tillage brought First Fruits.

c. transferred. Full of or exuding moisture like sweat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of exuding > [adjective] > exuding

siping1398

oozya1425

weeping1551

sweating1578

sweaty1600

weepy1825

exuding1849

oozing1878

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xxviii. 484 The apple-tree..loueth to haue the inward part of his wood moist and swettie.

1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Ded. xx Then selfe-sown Wheat shall grow and ripen afield, And sweatie vent of oke pure honie yeild.

3. Consisting of sweat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [adjective] > sweat

sudorous1646

sweaty1734

sudorific1807

1734 J. Swift Strephon & Cloe in Beautiful Young Nymph 8 No noisom Whiffs, or sweaty Streams.

Derivatives

ˈsweatily adv. also figurative anxiously, feverishly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [adverb] > covered or damp with sweat

sweatily1818

the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [adverb] > in an uneasy manner > anxiously or feverishly

sweatily1975

1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Sweatily, so as to be moist with sweat; in a sweaty state.

1975 Times 4 Sept. 12/8 Men talking sweatily about the upcoming upcurve in house prices.

1978 W. F. Buckley Stained Glass iii. 21 On the occasions when they found themselves trapped in his company at a dinner party, they would sweatily engage other members of the party..in concentrated, often nonsensical, discussions.

ˈsweatiness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [noun] > state

sweatiness1688

stew1892

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 128/1 Terms of Art used in Barbing... Rub the Hair with a Napkin, is to dry it from its swettiness.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Sweatiness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sweaty
释义	sweatyadj. Brit. /ˈswɛti/, U.S. /ˈswɛdi/ Forms: Middle English swety, 1500s swettie, 1500s–1600s sweatie, 1600s sweatty, swetty, 1600s– sweaty. Etymology: < sweat n. + -y suffix¹. 1. Causing sweat: Thesaurus » a. Heating, excessively hot. b. Toilsome, laborious. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome soreOE workfulOE hardOE torc1175 beswinkfulc1230 heavya1325 sweatyc1374 travailousa1382 laboriousa1393 laborousc1405 winful1443 painfulc1480 toilous1530 operousa1538 drudging1548 travailsome1549 laboursome1551 moilingc1566 toilsome?1570 toilful1573 sweating1592 insudate1609 sweatfula1618 moliminous1656 operose1659 swinking1693 schleppy1978 c1374 G. Chaucer Former Age 28 The tyme..Þat men fyrst dede hir swety bysynesse To grobbe vp metal. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Piv Spare no Sulphurous jest that may come out of that sweatie Forge of thine. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. ii. sig. C3 The life of Industries first fruite is somewhat sweatie, and painful. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 76 What might be toward that this sweaty march Doth make the night ioynt labourer with the day. 1641 Protestation Protested 10 Witnesse Dr. Hals sweatty discourses. 1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 21 Captain Zuinglius, and John Calvin, converted more with Swords and Guns, then with their sweaty Preaching. 1709 M. Prior 1st Hymn Callimachus 85 Those who labor The sweaty Forge. 1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad ix. 370 And measured ecchoing shouts their sweaty toils attend. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 9 60 The sugar..which the hands of the sooterkin negro Reared..in the island of sweaty Jamaica. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII xlviii. 79 'Tis..a pity..To lose those best months in a sweaty city. 1908 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 770/1 Thank Heaven he's let us alone this sweaty afternoon. c. Severe, demanding. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > authority > strictness > [adjective] > exacting exigeant1789 exigent1790 exactive1822 exacting1847 sweaty1919 ball-busting1978 1919 A. Lunn Loose Ends iii. 27 ‘It's a sweaty house for new men.’ Cluff shook his head sadly. ‘Yes, it's a hard life for new men.’ 1919 A. Lunn Loose Ends xiii. 118 These Blues are sometimes rather sweaty. They think it lip if you cut your work for a man who's been a Blue. 1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 85 I'm not trying to be sweaty or anything, but, um—just out of interest—how long have you known De Forest? 2. a. Covered with sweat; wet, moist, or stained with sweat. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [adjective] > covered or damp with sweat swotyc893 besweatc1275 forswatc1325 wetc1400 all on a watera1438 foaming1590 sweaty1590 sweated1654 deliquescent1815 perspiry1860 sticky1884 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. F6^v Hee..bayes His sweatie forehead in the breathing wynd. 1591 E. Spenser Daphnaïda iv When the wearie Sun After his dayes long labour drew to rest, And sweatie steeds now hauing ouer run The compast skie, gan water in the west. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 245 The rabblement..threw vppe their sweatie Night-cappes. View more context for this quotation 1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 124 His sweaty pumps are in my nose still. 1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. N. Hasselgren Swedish Pan in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 188 The plants ought not to be handled by sweaty hands. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. xviii. 148 The groans of the slaves,..their sweaty brows, wan eyes, and galled backs. b. Of persons: Laborious, toiling. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > toiling swinking?c1225 travailinga1398 drudging1548 toiling1552 toilsome1566 toilful1596 sweaty1603 droiling1607 carkingc1620 laboriferous1656 fagging1665 moiling1692 tewing1855 maulinga1864 bullocking1900 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. C4^v The swetty hinde (that digs the rent he paies thee out of the entrailes of the earth) he is sent for. 1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida ii. iv. sig. L2^v These glittering Jems had been By sweaty Labourers dig'd. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 434 Thither..A sweatie Reaper from his Tillage brought First Fruits. View more context for this quotation c. transferred. Full of or exuding moisture like sweat. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of exuding > [adjective] > exuding siping1398 oozya1425 weeping1551 sweating1578 sweaty1600 weepy1825 exuding1849 oozing1878 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xxviii. 484 The apple-tree..loueth to haue the inward part of his wood moist and swettie. 1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Ded. xx Then selfe-sown Wheat shall grow and ripen afield, And sweatie vent of oke pure honie yeild. 3. Consisting of sweat. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [adjective] > sweat sudorous1646 sweaty1734 sudorific1807 1734 J. Swift Strephon & Cloe in Beautiful Young Nymph 8 No noisom Whiffs, or sweaty Streams. Derivatives ˈsweatily adv. also figurative anxiously, feverishly. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [adverb] > covered or damp with sweat sweatily1818 the mind > emotion > fear > nervousness or uneasiness > [adverb] > in an uneasy manner > anxiously or feverishly sweatily1975 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Sweatily, so as to be moist with sweat; in a sweaty state. 1975 Times 4 Sept. 12/8 Men talking sweatily about the upcoming upcurve in house prices. 1978 W. F. Buckley Stained Glass iii. 21 On the occasions when they found themselves trapped in his company at a dinner party, they would sweatily engage other members of the party..in concentrated, often nonsensical, discussions. ˈsweatiness n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > perspirations > [noun] > state sweatiness1688 stew1892 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 128/1 Terms of Art used in Barbing... Rub the Hair with a Napkin, is to dry it from its swettiness. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Sweatiness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1374
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