Noun: sweat
| Singular | sweat |
| Plural | sweats |
Sample Sentences
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Just thinking about the interview tomorrow puts me into a nervous sweat.
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The Muses' friend (grey-eyed Aurora) yet
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Held all the meadows in a cooling sweat,
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The milk-white gossamers not upwards snow'd,
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Nor was the sharp and useful-steering goad [1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals:]
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the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack [1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:]
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A Horſe that gains Fleſh in hard Exerciſe, should be ſweated at leaſt twice in ten Days; and he ſhould run near five Miles in Puſhes, that the Sweat may have Time to diſcharge. Those Horſes which are ſweat without Covering, or with a very thin one, should run a long Sweat, as wel call it, and ſtand a conſiderable while afterwards with a thick Blanket or two over them, from Head to Tail; otherwiſe the Sweat will not come out well. [1740, Henry Bracken, Farriery improv'd:]
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There are some horses so very delicate, and have to run such short lengths, that they may not require a sweat during the whole time of their being in training. [1840, Richard Darvill, A Treatise on the Care, Treatment, and Training of the English Race Horse:]
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A sweat was, accordingly, a training run for a racehorse: a notice in The London Gazette in 1705 advertises a race for hunters that have not 'been kept in sweats above 12 weeks before the day of Running'. [2016, Gerald Hammond, The Language of Horse Racing:]
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When the sweat comes back this summer, 1528, people say, as they did last year, that you won't get it if you don't think about it. [2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 131:]
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[…]who both died within one houre of the sweat at Cambridge [1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:]
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Casuals believe that sweats are ruining Fortnite. Sweats think that casuals just need to get better at the game. It's a never-ending debate that will never end, despite what anyone tries to say, but it's worth taking a look at regardless. [2021 October 13, Zachary Roberts, “How exactly are 'sweats' ruining Fortnite? Addressing the never ending try-hards vs casual debate”, in Sportskeeda:]
Nouns inflected like sweat
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitą, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Norwegian Bokmål svette, Norwegian Nynorsk sveitte, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Portuguese suor, Persian خوی (xway, “sweat”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, Albanian djersë, and Welsh chwys. See: Middle English Nouns '
swete', Dutch Nouns '
zweet', German Nouns '
Schweiß', Danish Nouns '
sved', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
svette', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
sveitte', Swedish Nouns '
svett', English Nouns '
shvitz', Latin Nouns '
sudor', French Nouns '
sueur', Italian Nouns '
sudore', Spanish Nouns '
sudor', Portuguese Nouns '
suor'.
Verbs referencing "sweat"
English Nouns
shvitz, Dutch Nouns
zweet, German Nouns
Schweiß, Ancient Greek Nouns
σίδηρος, Danish Nouns
sved.