Meaning

5 senses
  1. (historical)Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.

  2. The service appointed for this hour.

  3. A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.

  4. An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.

    A message with sexual content

  5. (obsolete)An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.

Examples

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  1. Yanni was sexting with female acquaintances.

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  2. Mennad was looking for a sexting buddy.

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  3. He was sexting girls on his phone.

    deEr hat auf seinem Handy mit Mädels gesextet.

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  4. Sami was sexting.

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  5. I like sexting.

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Origin

From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta. Blend of sex + text. As a verb

From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta.

Blend of sex + text. As a verb, a back-formation from earlier sexting, formed from the noun.

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