sweaty

Meanings

Adjective

• Covered in sweat.
• Having a tendency to sweat.
• Likely to cause one to sweat.
• Caused by sweat.
• Strenuous; laborious; exhausting.
• Inappropriately serious about a leisure activity, chiefly video games.

Noun

• One who is sweaty.
• Informal sportswear, such as a sweatshirt, pair of sweatpants or a sweatsuit.

Origin

• From Middle English swety, equivalent to sweat + -y.
• Intentional misspelling of sweetie, ironically adopted with reference to the other sense of sweaty.