Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An evil spell; a curse.
- n. One that brings bad luck.
- v. To put a hex on.
- v. To bring or wish bad luck to: "Chilly evening weather and a chain of minor snafus seemed to hex the $5,000-a-seat gala on Governors Island” ( Newsweek).
- adj. Hexagonal. Used of hardware.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Short for hexadecimal. (Wiktionary)
- Pennsylvania Dutch, from German hexen, to hex, from Hexe, witch, from Middle High German hecse, from Old High German hagzissa. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“David Ashley's glowering sorcerer, Abanazer, supplies what someone calls the hex factor.”
“John on Jun 20, 2008 no idea who/what jonah hex is but have to go with fillion on this one, hes badass and a great actor, thomas jane is not now wheres my serenity sequel harrison on Jun 20, 2008”
So That Truly Was Thomas Jane as Jonah Hex! « FirstShowing.net
“Snyder after a win over Dallas, witnessed for himself how powerful the Cowboys 'hex is over the Redskins.”
“Already a decades-old product in America, these dirt-scoopers, which weigh in at 38 tons, haven't made much headway in China, which still relies on the smaller "hex" -- industry jargon for hydraulic excavator -- and trucks on most construction sites.”
“: its only a hex if you call a hex jack: P I hope to start readjusting my sleep schedule .. would be l ...”
“I’m not a— I couldn’t think of a word for hex just then in Lambaneish.”
“But Warner knows that Mexico not making the hex is a big hit to the wallet of CONCACAF.”
“They briefly mention the possibility of a watch that displays the seconds since Unix epoch, which is what I really want, especially if it can do so in hex.”
“As a matter of fact Nellie was small for her years, and Mrs. Ambrose, who was the most truthful of women, felt that she could not conscientiously agree in calling hex tall.”
“Now, my friends, this manner of opening a story is what the man who taught rhetoric would call a hex -- hex -- ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hex’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Evil eye
apotropaic, laughter, garlic, silver bullet, bruxa, amulet, rabbit's foot, crucifix, excantation, witch ball, heart stake, horseshoe and 20 more...
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Xcessive
Valid 3-letter words with an x. Also, longer words with more than one x in them.
wax, fix, tux, box, sex, max, six, aux, pox, hex, tax, mix and 78 more...
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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known words
words wot i already knew
antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (H)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
haberdashery, hailstone, halcyon, halibut, halo, hamadryad, hammock, harangue, harbour, harebell, harlequin, harp and 104 more...
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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harry potter words
quidditch, apparate, disapparate, lumos, snitch, pensieve, dementor, azkaban, wingardium, leviosa, horcrux, bludger and 376 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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good ones
grumble, fumble, bumble, stumble, crumble, mumble, jumble, humble, bramble, scramble, amble, ramble and 191 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hex.
jodi The Guardian says that 'hex' is used to mean # (from How the # became the sign of our times
It's called an octothorpe – and Twitter users have made it a global symbol). Wikipedia suggests that this is common in Singapore and Malaysia telephone usage, but needs citations. Dec 16, 2010
missanthropist Greek} Six. Jul 9, 2008