Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The act of sending sexually explicit text messages and/or photographs between cell phones.
- v. present participle of sext.
Etymologies
- Blend of sex and texting. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Microsoft pulls Kin "sexting" video after Consumer Reports blog post”
Arizona May Legalize Fireworks, Putting Fools Throughout The State In Grave Danger - The Consumerist
“I'm guessing that sexting is not a problem in Finland.”
“My daughter tells me that sexting is common amongst the dimmer teenage set these days — common enough so that she estimates 25% of her schoolmates are “guilty”.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Third Circuit Upholds Injunction of Threatened “Sexting” Prosecution
“To me the much more interesting questions are those of vagueness and first amendment protections, namely given that sexting is becoming a VERY common activity for teens, can it Constitutionally be criminalized, esp. when a conviction can mean a life-long obligation to register as a sex offender?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Third Circuit Upholds Injunction of Threatened “Sexting” Prosecution
“The percentage fell to 1 per cent when the definition of sexting was narrowed to include only sexually explicit images showing naked breasts, genitals or buttocks that potentially violate child pornography laws.”
“There's a lot of cases of what we call sexting back and forth.”
“I must admit that I am no expert in "sexting" -- that tricky combination of text messaging and cybersex.”
The Huffington Post: Amanda Ernst: Modern Dating: A Guide To Sexy Texting
“They're all perfect for catching a committed partner with a wandering eye or a penchant for "sexting" - that's sexy texting for short - with someone else.”
“Nude MySpace photos: Bloggers on whether teens should be arrested for "sexting" - New Jersey Blogs”
Nude MySpace photos: Bloggers on whether teens should be arrested for "sexting"
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sexting’.
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Fruits of Linguistic Invention
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Neologisms
'New' words.
neurogami, sexting, plussies, plussy, churnalism, hecka, greenwashing, greenwash, Blogistan, diactrize, subsume, cachebusting and 27 more...
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Portmanteaux
Words formed by joining two others and combining their meanings.
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awesome words
Words that mean cool things
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Words of the year 2009
As defined by the American Dialect Society, the best "word of the year" candidates will be:
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These are the words which characterize the decade, the ones on minds, on lips, in hearts: the ones which rose or flourished during these ten years, and became an inseparable part of our discourse, ...
Google, iPod, 9/11, global war on terror, social networking, texting, green, blog, podcast, sudoku, sexting, dubya and 7 more...
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Words I would use improperly
Words you could as a different meaning, but an intellectual could not follow the conversation
fireboard, grayish-pink, comely, slipstream, bulb, zombie bank, sexting, funemployed, boondoggle, dill overkill, devil-dodger, yangban and 5 more...
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Funny words
Words that have funny sounds or mean funny things
moose, noob, olivary, lubes, sapsuckers, mushroom-headed, grayish-pink, spatula-shaped, comely, slipstream, toad, bulb and 25 more...
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Digital Terms
Words come and go, perhaps nowhere faster than online. Some industry terms to stay current -- or to remember as they rest in peace.
tweet, cpm, crackberry, nofollow, brick-and-mortar, page view, double opt-in, opt-in, opt-out, mash-up, word of mouth, ctr and 200 more...
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Newsweek
All the words that are fit to be made up. Or, you know, to get into a weekly newsmagazine. I've been meaning to make this list for a long time.
brohawk, blasian, ghitalian, mcmansion, mcstrip mall, cornet wales, i could tell you ..., mackerel-snapper, tous les beaux es..., in the tank, longheadedness, kusa and 101 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
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Random Reading
Words I stumbled across.
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Portmanteaus
Words created by combining 2 (or sometimes more)
smog, spork, brunch, camcorder, chortle, cremains, cyborg, fantabulous, ginormous, frenemy, ebonics, gerrymander and 34 more...
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oscitancy, pandiculation, sexting, awald, pyrobolist, wrind, vasocongestion, ghee, bioluminescence, rosaceous, obstreperous, overdressed and 10 more...
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for sexting.
bilby "Three teenage girls in the US state of Washington are suing a US prosecutor who accused them of peddling 'child pornography', after semi-nude pictures of them were sent by mobile phone to friends.
The complaint is the latest legal wrangle over sexting - the apparently popular practice of sending nude or semi-nude photos to friends by mobile phone. Teachers alerted the authorities after discovering a waist-up image of two girls covered just by a bra, and another image of a girl topless.
District Attorney George Skumanik called for the girls to undergo five weeks of behaviour courses and take a drug test or face prosecution, according to a letter apparently sent to the teenagers' parents."
- AFP, 'Sexting' teens sue over porn charge, theage.com.au, 27 March 2009. Mar 28, 2009
chained_bear "'Sexting' is the clever new name for the act of sending, receiving or forwarding naked photos via your cell phone, and I wasn't fully convinced that America was facing a sexting epidemic, as opposed to a journalists-writing-about-sexting epidemic..."
—Dahlia Lithwick, "Teens, Nude Photos and the Law," Newsweek, Feb. 23, 2009, 18.
Further citations on cyberhumiliation. Feb 20, 2009
john “That's not all in the way of teens being punished for ‘sexting,’ as it is now being called. Two teenage girls in Seattle were suspended from their cheerleading team after school officials discovered that they had taken nude cellphone photos of themselves that were circulated among students.�?
Salon.com, OMG, teens R "sexting", by Tracy Clark-Flory, November 25, 2008 Dec 6, 2008