| 单词 | sexed-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmassexed-up 5. Chiefly colloquial. sexed-up. extracted from sexedadj. a. Having or expressing strong sexual feelings or awareness; sexually aroused; lustful. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > full of sexual desire fire-hotOE hot?a1300 venereal?a1475 warm1897 hot pants1927 sexed-up1933 supersexual1961 1933 T. Smith Rain in Doorway xvi. 217 ‘Think I'm a pretty hard girl, don't you?’ she advanced. ‘All sexed up and everything—an easy make?’ 1969 J. Gardner Compl. State of Death vi. 97 What do you do when you get sexed up? Mortify the flesh? 1976 Nature 15 July 177/3 Erickson and Zenone tested the reaction of 35 males to two groups of females... The males..showed more aggression and less courtship towards the ‘sexed up’ females. 1993 J. Green It: Sex since Sixties 403 Reluctantly she comes to bed; she wants to because she's all sexed up, but she doesn't want to because it's the first time we've met. 2006 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 12 Aug. (Etc. section) 18/1 (heading) Sleaze, sexed-up slackers and small-minded rednecks—Brisbane gives writers plenty to disapprove of. b. Of a book, film, etc.: made (more) sexually exciting or appealing; injected with sexual content. Also more generally: made (superficially) more interesting, exciting, or appealing; embellished. Cf. sex v. 3. ΚΠ 1955 Law & Contemp. Probl. 20 686 The time-tested formula for the ‘sexed-up’ cover of a paperback book is a near-naked girl with a revolver. 1976 Times 2 June 12/7 The Seven Ages of Man sexed up for a pub audience. 1997 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 13 July (Travel section) 5 k Though famous, there's nothing sexed-up or flashy about the [restaurant]. 2005 Time Out N.Y. 22 Sept. 99/1 A Euro-pudding drenched in pretension, this sexed-up suspense flick relies on the creakiest trick in the pomo book. 2007 Spectator (Nexis) 27 Oct. 24 The notorious ‘sexed-up’ intelligence reports that led to the invasion of Iraq. < as lemmas |
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