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texta

texta noun: a coloured felt-tip pen, usually wide-tipped for use by children.

Noun

texta (plural textas)

  1. (Australia) A coloured felt-tip pen, usually wide-tipped for use by children.
    • Here is what a wombat burrow may look like. Using coloured pencils or textas, colour in the wombat burrows.2003, Mark Fox, Discovering Australian Animals, page 34
    • He pencilled a map of India onto a piece of chipboard, and then went over the outline with a texta. He went over the texta outline with a razorblade and then, with a knife, he cut away the excess chipboard.2008, Ghristopher Cyrill, “The Ganges and Its Tributaries”, in Alice Pung, editor, Growing Up Asian in Australia, page 40

Forms of texta

pluraltextas

Origin of texta

By trademark erosion from Texta, a registered trademark of Australian stationery company Jasco Pty Ltd. Presumably from text. Usage of the word began from the 1970s, when primary school children in Australia used the brand of felt-tip markers with bright, colourful packaging, prominently displaying the name "TEXTA".

Questions about texta

What does texta mean?
Texta means a coloured felt-tip pen, usually wide-tipped for use by children.
What part of speech is texta?
Texta is a noun.
What is the plural of texta?
The plural of texta is textas.

Words near texta in the dictionary

  1. text-editor
  2. text-editors
  3. text-to-speech
  4. text-type
  5. text-types
  6. texta
  7. textable
  8. textaholic
  9. textaholics
  10. textarian
  11. textarians

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