shmexy

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/ʃmɛk.si/

adjective

Sexy.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveshmexy (comparative shmexier, superlative shmexiest)

comparative shmexier · superlative shmexiest · alternative schmexy

  1. euphemistichumorousslangSexy.

    Sir Ben Marx. Singer, model, shmexy zombie.

    2011, Jaymie Baxley, "Sir Ben Marx Q&A", Feed Magazine, November 2011 (image caption)
    3 more examples

    Sexy, schmexy. My friend Flo is coming over and I will not have her see my daughter wearing ripped-up rags!!

    1984, Cathy Guisewite, Men Should Come with Instruction Booklets: A Cathy Collection, →ISBN, page 52

    He sat down and smiled at me, a corner of his mouth higher than the other and one eyebrow raised. Wow, that was entirely too shmexy for this early in the morning.

    2012, Kimberly Pauley, Cat Girl's Day Off, Tu Books, →ISBN

    Flabbergasted by his transformation back into shmexy 'Cab Braden' who couldn't take his eyes off of me, I didn't know what to make of it in all my confusion.

    2012, Samantha Young, On Dublin Street, New American Library, →ISBN
  2. slangHaving a desirability like sexual attractiveness.

Origin

  1. Englishshm-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sek-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*séks-u-s
  4. Proto-Italic*seksus
  5. Proto-Indo-European*sek-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*sékh₁yeti
  7. Proto-Italic*sekaō
  8. Latinsecō
  9. Latinsecāre?
  10. Latinsexus
  11. Old Frenchsexe
  12. Middle Englishsexe
  13. Englishsex
  14. Englishsexy
  15. Englishshmexy

From shm- + sexy.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

shmexy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shmexy

MLA

“shmexy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shmexy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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