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mistext

mistext verb: to make an error trying to send a text; to text the wrong person or send a garbled text.

Verb

mistext (third-person singular simple present mistexts, present participle mistexting, simple past and past participle mistexted)

  1. To make an error trying to send a text; to text the wrong person or send a garbled text.
    • Or had Michael misheard or mistexted?2009, Lisa Gee, Stage Mum, page 150
    • As I said, I wasn't sure if you were someone who called random numbers to see if anyone would be interested in a ... let's call it a 'spicy' chat, or if you had genuinely mis-texted.2015, Crystal Green, Sugarbaby

Noun

mistext (plural mistexts)

  1. A text message that was mistexted.
    • A person who is interested in you will be able to overlook a gaffe or mistext and will probably think it's kinda funny.2015 October 19, Julieanne Smolinski, “You Texted Something Stupid to Her. Now What?”, in GQ
    • This was before the ubiquity of mobile phones and the emerging lexicon of mistexts, so it also made an impression because of the closenss of 'light' and 'life'.2017, Georgia Blain, The Museum of Words

Examples of mistext in a sentence

  • It was unlike him to mistext, even as messed up as he usually was.2022, Thomas K. Carpenter, Sonata of Shadow and Thorn:
  • I never understood the logic behind the random late-night mistexts.2018, Amanda Stauffer, Match Made in Manhattan:

Forms of mistext

Verb
third-person singular presentmistexts
present participlemistexting
past participlemistexted
pastmistexted
Noun
pluralmistexts

Origin of mistext

From mis- + text.

Questions about mistext

What does mistext mean?
Mistext means to make an error trying to send a text; to text the wrong person or send a garbled text.
How do you use mistext in a sentence?
It was unlike him to mistext, even as messed up as he usually was.
What part of speech is mistext?
Mistext can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of mistext?
The past tense of mistext is mistexted.

Words near mistext in the dictionary

  1. mistests
  2. mistetch
  3. mistetched
  4. mistetches
  5. mistetching
  6. mistext
  7. mistexted
  8. mistexting
  9. mistexts
  10. mistextured
  11. mistfall

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