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het¹

  • /hɛt/

Rhymes with -ɛt

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Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros

Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros

Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.

English hetero-

Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.

Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder.

Proto-Italic *seksus

Proto-Indo-European *sek-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *sékh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *sekaō

Latin secō

Latin secāre?

Latin sexus

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin sexuālisbor.

English sexual

English -sexual

English heterosexualclip.

English het

Clipping of heterosexual.

noun hets

  1. countable, slang A heterosexual person. See how you like that you townie het from southeastern MA / Saying "fairy" and "Mark Wahlberg" like it's southie any day
  2. slang, uncountable Fan fiction involving characters in an opposite-sex romantic or sexual relationship. 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.

adjective more het · most het

  1. slang Heterosexual.

het²

  • /hɛt/

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Middle English het

Middle English hette

English het

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

verb

  1. dialectal, participle, past simple past and past participle of heat

adjective more het · most het

  1. dialectal Heated.

het³

  • /hɛt/

Rhymes with -ɛt

noun

  1. West Country, dialectal, especially, uncountable dialectal form of heat (“hotness”)heat

het⁴

  • /hɛt/

Rhymes with -ɛt

verb hets · hetting · hetted · het

  1. West Country, dialectal, especially dialectal form of heat (“to make hot”)heat

het⁵

  • /hɛt/

Rhymes with -ɛt

noun hets

  1. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of heterozygous.heterozygous For sale: Albino hognose female $20k. Hets $12.5k for pair.

adjective

  1. abbreviation, clipping, not comparable Clipping of heterozygous.heterozygous

het⁶

  • /hɛt/

Rhymes with -ɛt

noun hets

  1. alternative Alternative form of heth (Semitic letter).heth

HET⁷

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Historical Enquiries Team.Historical Enquiries Team

noun HETs

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Hall effect thruster.Hall effect thruster

Het⁸

noun

  1. plural, plural only Any of a number of nomadic groups from the Argentine Pampas and Patagonia.

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