sext
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 4
/sɛkst/
Definition of sext
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (historical)Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
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noun
- (historical)Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
- The service appointed for this hour.
- A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.
- (obsolete)An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.
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An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.
“Embarrassed by a ‘Sext’ Message”
verb
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(intransitive, transitive)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.”
“We would talk on the phone for hours and then text and sext the rest of the day.”
“Sexting sonnets / Under the tables”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta.
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