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sext

noun
/sɛkst/

Etymology

Blend of sex + text. As a verb, a back-formation from earlier sexting, formed from the noun.

  1. derived from sexta

Definitions

  1. Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.

  2. The service appointed for this hour.

  3. A sixth

    A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.

    2. An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or…

      An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.

      • Embarrassed by a ‘Sext’ Message

    3. To send a sext.

      • Rebecca Loos claimed she was 'sexted' by Beckham
      • […] trying to get into the swing of things by texting my husband (I was a little tipsy, I will admit): "How do you sext someone?" hoping to engage in the latest trend. All I got was, "What!" in reply.
      • The next day, Greg sexted me a few pictures of his package.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sext. 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