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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of sweat.

Etymologies

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sweat +‎ -like

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Examples

  • In the previous century, in England, Sir Kenelm Digby, in his interesting and remarkable _Private Memoirs_, when describing a visit to Lady Venetia Stanley, afterward his wife, touches on personal odor as an element of attraction; he had found her asleep in bed and on her breasts "did glisten a few drops of sweatlike diamond sparks, and had a more fragrant odor than the violets or primroses whose season was newly passed."

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

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