Wet

Water is wet.

I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet.

The baby is wet and needs its nappy changed.

Parents and small children can stay cool and soaking wet at interactive water playgrounds.

A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.

The new item is its first "wet," or sauce-topped, burrito.

But I'm getting the wet burrito.” Ignacio looked down at some sort of a tomato sauce–covered tortilla tube.

This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.

It’s going to be wet tomorrow.

1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 32, Summer drouth, or singed aire Never scorch thy tresses faire, Nor wet Octobers torrent flood Thy molten crystall fill with mudde,

“Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

February 2020 was officially the wettest February on record for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the second wettest (behind 1990) for Scotland.

While the study doesn’t directly shed light on why, it suggested that maintaining a similar degree of mobility as the climate changed to the warmer and wetter pattern we have today could have imparted additional stress as the mammoth encountered unfamiliar environments or restricted its movement.

This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximum wet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel.

That guy’s wet; after all, he just started yesterday.

He got me all wet.

I'm gonna get you wet. I'm gonna get you very wet. I know how to do this.

"Wet! What currency that bit of slang has—and what awful power. It took me a long time to find out what the word meant, but after long research I think that I know. A man is wet if he isn't a 'regular guy'; he is wet if he isn't 'smooth'; he is wet if he has intellectual interests and lets the mob discover them; and, strangely enough, he is wet by the same token if he is utterly stupid. He is wet if he doesn't show at least a tendency to dissipate, but he isn't wet if he dissipates to excess. A man will be branded as wet for any of these reasons, and once he is so branded, he might as well leave college … "

I think it’s time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stopped this general fight of self-recrimination and wetness.

Don’t be so wet.

The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.

c. 1694, Matthew Prior, “Celia to Damon” […] When my lost Lover the tall Ship ascends, / With Musick gay, and wet with Iovial Friends […]

the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed

a wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff

1811. John Adams, Letter to the Boston Patriot, §25. Reprinted in 1856. Charles Francis Adams (ed.), The Life of John Adams, Second President of The United States. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 661. The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them. The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him a wet Quaker. The dissenting clergymen in England and America were among the most distinguished asserters and propagators of his renown. Indeed, all sects considered him, and I believe justly, a friend to unlimited toleration in matters of religion.

Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.

Don't go out in the wet.

They'll be in the camp […] before the Wet's out, mark my words.

Once the wet kicks in up north, you can be stranded for months waiting for swollen rivers to subside to a crossable depth[.]

He said he wanted to beat the clouds gathering, before the Wet had properly settled itself over the plains again.

2015, David Andrew, The Complete Guide to Finding the Mammals of Australia, Csiro Publishing, Appendix B, page 380 https://books.google.ca/books?id=XBnyCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Northern Australia is tropical and subject to a prolonged wet season (often called simply 'the Wet') that may last from December to April […] . The Wet features high humidity, heavy rain, flooding that can cut off towns and roads for days on end, and, in most years, violent cyclones that cause high seas, widespread damage and sometimes loss of life.

‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet.’

The drys were as unhappy with the second part of the speech as the wets were with the first half.

Wets, designed to channel water away from underneath the tyres, maximise grip and minimise the chance of aquaplaning.

Above all, he [Nigel Molesworth] is his own man, resolutely committed to a view of life that divides his fellow pupils into 'sissies', 'wets', 'swots' and 'old lags'.

Rimmer had never been terribly good at sports. In fact, he'd been one of the group of 'wets, weirdos and fatties' who stood by the touchline at ball games, worrying about their chapped legs, and fleeing whenever the ball came near them.

There is scanty room for a railway, and in many places the rails are wetted by the spray from the Illecillewaet, which is the Indian word for a raging torrent.

'Mr Kelly's Car Wash' was a toy made by Remco where a toy car could be automatically wetted, scrubbed and dried.

I try to show emotion, but my eyes won't seem to wet

Johnny wets the bed several times a week.

She was laughing so hard she wet her pants.

to wet the baby’s head

[He] invited some officers and other gentlemen to dine with him at the Dolphin tavern in Tower street, June 17, 1706, in order to wet his commission […]

I'm coming to get ya, I'm coming to get ya / Spitting out lyrics, homie, I'll wet ya