/ˈseksi/
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Translation
Sexually attractive, or loosely just exciting and appealing. This is the mildest word in the chapter and it is everywhere in ordinary talk and advertising, but said about a real person at work it is still unwelcome.
Word origin
From sex plus the ending -y. It meant concerned with sex around 1900, and settled into sexually attractive in the 1920s.
- Origin
- English
- Root
- sex
Examples
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The main sense: sexually attractive.
advert " ".
Loosened right out to mean exciting and appealing. Nothing to do with sex.
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Ordinary in an advert, unwelcome about a real person at work.
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