Soaking
adj, noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking. countable, uncountable
""We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains"."
- 2 washing something by allowing it to soak wordnet
- 3 The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by some conservative Christians in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse. countable, uncountable
"That's probably why everyone is already having anal sex in ninth grade. I mean, let's face it, even the Mormons are soaking."
- 4 the act of making something completely wet wordnet
- 5 the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) wordnet
- 1 present participle and gerund of soak form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Extremely wet; saturated.
"I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday."
- 2 Of rain, heavy but slow enough to penetrate deeply into the top soil.
- 1 extremely wet wordnet
Example
More examples"I was caught in a shower on my way home from school, got soaking wet and caught a cold."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum.
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