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het | hex |

As a pronoun het

is she.

As a noun hex is

witch.

het

English

Etymology 1

.

Noun

  • (countable, slang, ) A heterosexual person.
  • (uncountable, fandom slang) Fan fiction]] based on [[celebrity, celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship.
  • * 2005 , Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online , Peter Lang (2005), ISBN 0820471186, page 207:
    • Mary Ellen Curtin presented a paper at the 2002 Popular Culture Association conference in which she studied fanfiction archives to discover that black characters appeared far less in both het and slash fiction than white or even Latino/a characters.
  • * 2006 , Catherine Driscoll, "One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance", in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (eds. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), McFarland & Company (2006), ISBN 9780786426409, page 84:
    • The vast majority of fan fiction is het or slash, and these types are usually defined against each other as approaches to romance and porn, marginalizing gen as something outside of the dominant concerns of fan fiction.
  • * 2010 , Rebecca Ward Black, "Just Don't Call Them Cartoons: The New Literacy Spaces of Anime, Manga, and Fanfiction", in Handbook of Research on New Literacies (eds. Julie Coiro, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, & Donald J. Leu), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2010), ISBN 9780805856514, page 595:
    • Other studies explore why some women write het'' , or fictions with heterosexual pairings of certain couples, within canons such as ''Star Trek Voyager that generally inspire slash fiction (Somogyi, 2002).
  • *
    • Synonyms
    * (fan fiction) hetfic

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Heterosexual.

    • Etymology 2

    Strong conjugation of heat

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dialect) (heat)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialect) Heated.
    • Derived terms
    * het up

    Anagrams

    * ----

    hex

    English

    (wikipedia hex)

    Etymology 1

    First attested about 1830, from (etyl)

    Verb

  • To put a hex (a spell, especially an evil spell) on.

    • Noun

    (hexes)
  • An evil spell or curse.
  • A witch.
  • (rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).

    • Etymology 2

    Short for hexadecimal.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (computing, informal)

    • Etymology 3

    Short for hexagon.

    Noun

    (es)
  • 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.

    • See also

    (climbing) nut

    References

    English terms with multiple etymologies