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nonsexy

adj

Etymology

From non- + sexy.

  1. derived from *séksus✻
  2. derived from *seksus✻
  3. derived from sexus — “gender; gender traits; males or females; genitals”
  4. derived from sexe — “genitals; gender”
  5. inherited from sexe — “sex 􂀿distinction between male and female􂁀 and gender”
  6. suffixed as sexy — “sex + y”
  7. prefixed as nonsexy — “non + sexy”

Definitions

  1. Not sexy.

    • Women have more favorable attitudes toward beefcake ads than toward cheesecake ads, but even more favorable attitudes toward ads with nonsexy male models.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonsexy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA