Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Ecclesiastical The fourth of the seven canonical hours.
- n. Ecclesiastical The time of day set aside for this service, usually the sixth hour, or noon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the Roman Catholic and Greek churches, in religious houses, and as a devotional office in the Anglican Church, the office of the sixth hour, originally and properly said at midday. See canonical hours, under canonical.
- n. In music:
- n. The interval of a sixth.
- n. In organ-building, a mixture-stop of two ranks separated by a sixth—that is, consisting of a twelfth and a seventeenth.
Wiktionary
- n. The fourth of the canonical hours; usually held at noon.
- n. A sexual text message.
- n. Any electronic message with sexual context.
- v. intransitive To send a sext message.
- v. transitive To send (someone) a (sext message).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary.
- n. The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon
Etymologies
- Blend of sex and text ("to send a text message"); partly back-formation from sexting, which is more common. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English sexte, from Late Latin sexta, from Latin sexta (hōra), sixth (hour), feminine of sextus, sixth; see s(w)eks in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The court said that threatening to press felony charges against a girl who appeared in a racy "sext" -- unless she took enrolled in a diversionary program -- was in violation of "the teen's constitutional right to be free from compelled speech and infringed on her parents 'right to direct her upbringing.”
The Huffington Post: PA Mulls Teen Sexting Laws That Would Outlaw Explicit Pictures, Texts
“It shows a student, Megan, walk out of the toilets at school doing up her blouse and smirking at the "sext" - an explicit photo taken on her mobile phone - she had just sent to her boyfriend.”
“Tiger Woods is being called a sext-happy philanderer by the National Enquirer, is getting hounded by the Florida Highway Patrol, and is facing the possibility that his wife could go to jail for domestic abuse.”
“The "sext" scandal surrounding Brett Favre may or may not be valid, but that's not stopping the parodies and spoofs from hitting the Web.”
The Huffington Post: The Brett Favre Penis Photo Scandal Gets Animated (VIDEO)
“It started with illustrating the Tiger Woods leaked "sext" messages in December which ended up being pretty popular.”
The Washington Post: The Museum of Celebrity Tweets: Surreally fun
“State official allegedly attacked after 'sext' messages”
“Schoolgirl hung herself after 'sext' sent to hundreds”
“In the same survey, 43 percent of people ages 13 to 17 say they "sext" with their peers.”
“Mobile phone text messaging has given rise to two new entries: the "sext", a message of a sexual nature, and "drexting", defined as the practice of sending a text message while drunk.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“A video to make teens think twice before they "sext" prompts the question - how would you feel if the picture was sent to your teacher?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sext’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Times of Day
A cycle we should know by name
dawn, sunrise, daw, sparrow-fart, moonrise, daybreak, crepuscular, false dawn, greking, night, dusk, evenfall and 17 more...
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New and Unholy Coinage
21st century coinage. Any strange words you`ve seen on TV or heard from irritating young people.
hateration, holleration, chillax, weaksauce, pimpin', hella, meme, blamin, propagandhi, jazzercise, blog, social lubricant and 59 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (S)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
sabian symbols, saffron, sagacious, sage, salamander, sally lunn, salmon, salsify, salt water taffy, samhain, sand dollar, sandalwood and 270 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 848 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 856 more...
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Pull out the stops
Organ stops, that is.
diapason, clarabella, dulciana, bourdon, reed stop, flue stop, violoncello, suabe flute, waldflute, rackett, pyramidon, querflöte and 106 more...
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the name of the rose
pleasing words I encounter whilst reading umberto eco's novel of the same name.
matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, nones, vespers, compline, usurper, simoniac, heresiarch, malefactor and 230 more...
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"X" Words
Scrabble List
axe, box, cox, dex, fax, fix, fox, gox, hex, kex, lax, lex and 77 more...
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rituale romanum
apostolic, vestments, surplice, stole, cassock, sacrament, communion, litany, absolution, transubstantiation, bread, wine and 53 more...
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horae canonicae
being the canonical hours, both major and minor
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sext.

ramsler It’s a bit of a head-scratcher for adults, like me and my Facebook friends, who aren’t inclined to sext with one another. We’re more used to uploading photos of pets, food, babies and concerts, which aren’t nearly as provocative. - Brian X. Chen, NYTimes Reporter, 12/24/2012 re: Facebook's new "Poke" app.
Dec 25, 2012
José Lisandro Sánchez Salas 'Sext' and 'sexting' have been suggested to be included in WordReference's English Dictionary:
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1789431 Jun 17, 2011
ruzuzu "1. Ecclesiastical The fourth of the seven canonical hours.
2. Ecclesiastical The time of day set aside for this service, usually the sixth hour, or noon."
- American Heritage Dictionary
Jul 15, 2010