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het

Best crossword clue

"Warmed, dialectally"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /hɛt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted ehtStarts with HEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
1H2E3T

Definitions

  1. made warm or hot (‘het’ is a dialectal variant of ‘heated’)

Word origin

From Middle English hette (simple past), het (past participle), from Old English hǣtte (simple past), (ġe)hǣted (past participle), conjugations of hǣtan (“to read”); see heat (“to make hot”).

Used in a sentence

  • See how you like that you townie het from southeastern MA / Saying "fairy" and "Mark Wahlberg" like it's southie any day
  • 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.
  • 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).

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