Kex vs Hex - What's the difference?
kex | hex |
The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
(obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
(rare) A dry husk or covering.
* 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 100-101:
To put a hex (a spell, especially an evil spell) on.
An evil spell or curse.
A witch.
(rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
(computing, informal)
A hexagonal space on a game board.
a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.
English terms with multiple etymologies
In lang=en terms the difference between kex and hex
is that kex is a dry husk or covering while hex is a spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).As nouns the difference between kex and hex
is that kex is the dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants while hex is an evil spell or curse.As a verb hex is
to put a hex (a spell, especially an evil spell) on.kex
English
Alternative forms
* kixNoun
(kexes)- On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix .
