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over-sexed, a.|əʊvəˈsɛkst|
[over- 28 d.]
Having sexual propensities or qualities in an excessive degree; inordinately desirous of sexual gratification. Also fig. Hence over-ˈsexedness.
1898C. P. Stetson Women & Econ. iii. 43 The male..is a far more normal animal than the female of his species,—far less over-sexed. Ibid. 44 The secretion of milk is a maternal function,—a sex function. The cow is over-sexed. 1901G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans p. xi, I did not find that matters were improved by the lady pretending to be ‘a woman with a past’, violently over-sexed. 1908A. Noyes William Morris 98 A creature so gluttonously over-sexed and selfishly serpentine as Gudrun. 1923C. Mackenzie Parson's Progress viii. 95 Nobody questions the ethical value of Christianity except a few oversexed egomaniacs. 1923Daily Mail 5 Feb. 5 His..terra-cotta-coloured nudes..are repulsive and over-sexed. 1937G. Frankau More of Us x. 112 Fearful lest one more line of such o'er-sexed stuff Leave us no energy to do our next stuff. 1941Auden New Year Let. iii. 54 Hearing how circumstance has vexed A broker who is over-sexed. 1953Encounter Nov. 31/1 Y. is the political equivalent of a nymphomaniac... This kind of neurosis..flourishes chiefly in the climate of the Left—for, generally speaking, the Left is politically over-sexed. Ibid. 31/2 The unfulfilled urge ‘to belong’ may lead to ‘political oversexedness’, expressing itself in blind, self-sacrificing devotion to some unholy cause. 1973‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Starry Bird xv. 229 You've laid your oversexed little claws on my girl. 1977‘H. Carmichael’ Grave for Two ix. 111 To put it mildly she was inclined to be over-sexed. |