het
/hɛt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.14 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Fan fiction involving characters in an opposite-sex romantic or sexual relationship.
Slang; Uncountable
verb
simple past and past participle of heat
adj
noun
Clipping of heterozygous.
Example Sentences
- "See how you like that you townie het from southeastern MA / Saying "fairy" and "Mark Wahlberg" like it's southie any day"
- "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."
- "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)."
- "For sale: Albino hognose female $20k. Hets $12.5k for pair."
Etymology
Etymology tree 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hette, hǣtte
Usage
Inflected Forms
hets (plural)
more het (comparative)
most het (superlative)
hets (present, singular)
hetting (participle, present)
hetted (participle, past)
hetted (past)