Etymology

sweaty

S1W4E1A1T1Y4

Today it means: Covered in sweat. Full definition →

Middle English swety
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

sweaty · adjective, noun1

  1. Middle English · inherited fromswety
  2. English todaysweaty

From Middle English swety, equivalent to sweat + -y.

sweaty · noun2

Influenced by the similarity of the spelling of sweety, and the humorous contrast between their meanings.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.