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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
steamy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
steamy love scenes
▪ a steamy locker room
▪ His latest production is a steamy thriller set in Hong Kong.
▪ The movie contains some pretty steamy scenes!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he has written a steamy thriller, much to the surprise of his conservative minions.
▪ In contrast to steamy hearings on the waterfront plan over the past seven years, only two critics showed up Thursday.
▪ So return with us to that steamy, sweaty shanty in Old Boston Town.
▪ The steamy yellow gruel in the bucket splashed out on to the kitchen floor.
▪ The three scents clashed deliciously and fought for supremacy in the hot steamy room.
▪ We drank a warm, steamy ale that Anders had brewed in the kitchen.
▪ Would they make love all day at some hot, steamy house somewhere in this glittering cosmopolitan city?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steamy

Steamy \Steam"y\ (-[y^]), a.

  1. Consisting of, or resembling, steam; vaporous; misty.
    --Cowper.

  2. Emitting steam; full of steam.

  3. Erotic; consisting of or depicting passionate sexual activity; as, a steamy love affair; the steamy scenes were cut from the film to avoid an X rating.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
steamy

1640s, "vaporous, misty, abounding in steam," from steam + -y (2); in the sense of "erotic, sexy," it is first recorded 1952. Related: Steamily; steaminess.

Wiktionary
steamy

a. 1 warm and humid; full of steam 2 (context slang English) erotic

WordNet
steamy
  1. adj. hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather" [syn: muggy, sticky]

  2. [also: steamiest, steamier]

Usage examples of "steamy".

Immediately readers are drawn into this story by the very steamy love affair between Cade and Valerie.

Rich aromas of onion, fenugreek, nutmeg, and cardamon hung over it like a steamy cloud.

Never had she been more grateful to breathe the fumid air of a steamy London morning.

The high summer sun was just beginning to beat down on me, and the ghillie suit was getting steamy.

It flowed from a steamy, bubbling pond that I knew also was Polecat Springs.

Option Two: abandon the secure cozy comforts of the timemobile capsule, take his chances on foot out there in the steamy mists, a futuristic pygmy roaming virtually unprotected among the dinosaurs of this fragrant Late Cretaceous forest.

Then a steadier fall, gently swirling, touching down, lifting up, touching down again, until the little square, or campo, outside the steamy window of the Gambero Rosso is aglow with a dusting of the purest white.

The air was steamy with the scent of coffee and bacon and arette smoke.

From the gentle planet Aurora to the steamy rainforests of a distant cosmos, Dez and Blaise are caught in a web of treachery, seduction and explosive passion that sweeps them beyond danger, beyond desire, and beyond the moon and stars.

Rob had forgotten about Regine Clery, and looked forward to some steamy relief from his needs.

Kirk spent the morning at his club, Sutro Selestial Baths, where he rowed several kilometers in the hydroplane, boxed with a machine set at intermediate level, and relaxed in the steamy, invigorating Mercury Room.

Occasionally Soli would shrink his neck down into his wool collar and let out a huff of steamy air.

The thick air was wet, steamy and so redolent of blooming orchids as to almost stagger the still unthawed Snay bin Wazir.

The Teatro Amazonas would have been lovely anywhere - here in the midst of the steamy, dusky jungle it was staggering.

Selene pulled the damp cloth of her white spencer, a sort of antebellum blouse, away from her neck and tried to blow inside the steamy confines of her garment, to no avail.