sexting
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsexting (usually uncountable, plural sextings)
- The act of transmitting and/or receiving sexually suggestive text messages and/or photographs between cell phones equipped with text messaging.
Verb
editsexting
- present participle and gerund of sext
Usage notes
editThe verb to sext is most often used in the form sexting.
Coordinate terms
editTranslations
editsending sexually explicit text messages or photographs between cell phones
References
edit- “sexting”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
Spanish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English sexting.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsexting m (uncountable)
Usage notes
editAccording to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
edit- “sexting”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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