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smexting

noun

Etymology

Blend of smoking + texting.

  1. derived from *meyth₂-✻ — “to exchange”
  2. derived from mitto — “send”
  3. derived from missāticum
  4. derived from message
  5. inherited from message
  6. suffixed as messaging — “message + ing”
  7. compounded as texting — “text + messaging”
  8. compounded as smexting — “smoking + texting”

Definitions

  1. Sending SMS messages while smoking in the designated outdoor areas.

    • In the two weeks following the smoking ban, texting across Orange’s network of 17 million mobile phone users shot up by 7.5 million texts, leading Orange to dub the trend ‘smexting’.
    • Ever since the public smoking ban was set in the UK, a record number of text messages have been sent, a phenomenon the Daily Mail has dubbed, "smexting".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for smexting. 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