Slang dictionary
smexy
[smek-see]
What does smexy mean?
Smexy is a blend of smart听补苍诲 sexy, referring to someone who has both brains and beauty.
It can also just be a fun way of calling someone听sexy.
Where does smexy come from?
One early use of听smexy comes in a 1997 fanfiction story, which mentions “smexy time” between two characters. Smexy, here, appears to be just a playful and more intensive version of听sexy.
The term spreads in online fan forums, including for discussions of characters in video games and anime.
Smexy, as a specific blend of听smart听and听sexy, is entered on Urban Dictionary in 2004 and appears on Twitter by 2008.
Smexy Books, for one instance of the term, launched in 2010 to provide reviews of romance novels鈥攚hich are presumably both听smart听and听sexy.听
Good morning fam! How are you smexy peeps??
— 饾檻饾檮饾樉饾檧|JAX (@JacksofAmerica)
Examples of smexy
Who uses smexy?
Smexy is used as a cutesy way to call a person both good-looking and intelligent. It’s especially used of men by women on the internet.
Literally the rest of them are looking so suave, smexy and then there's Jinki looking like sunshine 鈽�锔�
— T1001101 鈽� 鈽解檿 (@ShineeChicken)
Smexy, though, may not necessarily imply smartness but just a degree of sexiness that prompts a kind of giddy affection.
For others, smexy is that endearing mix of the dorky and the adorable, as seen in the 2014 comedic YouTube song “The Smexy Song.”
Note
This is not meant to be a formal definition of smexy like most terms we define on Dictionary.com, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of smexy that will help our users expand their word mastery.