Wetly

adv, slang

adv, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a wet manner.

    "They lay on one another in heaps, or attempted to crawl about—some itching madly with leprosies—some swollen and gasping with dropsies—some wetly reeking, like hands washed in winter-time."

  2. 2
    Ineffectually, feebly, showing no strength of character. UK, informal

    "Rupert Frazer reveals the hollowness behind the elder Forsyth's tyrannical bluster, while Geoff Breton does all that is possible to reconcile us to his wetly conventional son."

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"They lay on one another in heaps, or attempted to crawl about—some itching madly with leprosies—some swollen and gasping with dropsies—some wetly reeking, like hands washed in winter-time."

Etymology

From wet + -ly.

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