Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

textie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tex-tie
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Diminutive of text.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"Halfway through the night I got a textie from my girlfriend asking me to meet her at the DJ booth quickly."
"Had a textie from BTC about new charges?"
"I had a textie from Paul yesterday after the match. He's had his op, but was feeling very sore."
"just write a textie which is not a reply to a previous one, and see what it comes up with: 'Number' and a little arrow pointing at the address book icon so you press that, so up comes a menu headed by 'Phone Book' […]"
"Her cellphone beeps the arrival of a textie."
"I do use it for dialling up and no problem there (Nokia 7650 here) but i^([sic]) too find annoying the lack of feedback on whether a textie was successfully sent or not."

Etymology

From text + -ie.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: text

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

texties (plural)

Questions

What does textie mean?: Diminutive of text.
Where does textie come from?: From text + -ie.

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