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Sext vs Vext - What's the difference?

sext | vext |

As verbs the difference between sext and vext

is that sext is to send a sext message while vext is (archaic) (vex).

As a noun sext

is the fourth of the canonical hours; usually held at noon or sext can be a sexual text message.

sext

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The fourth of the canonical hours; usually held at noon.

    • Etymology 2

    , which is more common.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sexual text message.
  • Any electronic message with sexual context.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To send a sext message.
  • To send (someone) a (sext message).
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 2010-04-16 , title = Sex suspended, celibacy supreme , first = Victoria , last = Gehman , work = Albany Student Press , url = http://www.albanystudentpress.org/sex-suspended-celibacy-supreme-1.1346703 , passage = The next day, Greg sexted me a few pictures of his package. When I opened the file the image was unlike anything I'd ever seen. "No wonder he's a sex addict!" I thought. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2011-11-14 , title = The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass , first = Bill , last = Maher , authorlink = Bill Maher , publisher = Penguin , isbn = 9781101552155 , passage = This week, we found out Vikings quarterback Brett Favre allegedly tried to get with a young woman by sending her Myspace messages, voicemails, and notes through a friend, and when none of that worked, it was third and long—though not as long as most of us would have imagined—he decided to sext her pictures of Little Brett to close the deal. }}
    Synonyms
    * sex-text

    Derived terms

    * (l)
    Usage notes
    * Particularly used as (sexting). ----

    vext

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (vex)
  • * What happiness to reign a lonely king,
    Vext' — O ye stars that shudder over me,
    O earth that soundest hollow under me,
    '''Vext     with waste dreams?
    — Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King     , "The Coming of Arthur"
  • * And that same night, the night of the new year,
    By reason of the bitterness and grief
    That vext his mother, all before his time
    Was Arthur born [...]
    — Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "The Coming of Arthur"
  • * [...] and thence
    Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
    Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
    To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.
    — Tennyson, Idylls of the King , "Holy Grail"
    • English irregular simple past forms