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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
moist/mɔɪst/

▶adjective

1 slightly wet.
■ (of a climate) rainy.

2 Medicine marked by a fluid discharge.

– derivatives
moistly adverb,
moistness noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. moiste, based on L. mucidus ‘mouldy’ (influenced by musteus ‘fresh’, from mustum: see must2).

'moist' also found in these Oxford entries:

Atlantic - chlamydomonas - dewy-eyed - frog - humid - humidor - humour - lady fern - maritime - moisten - mould - musty - orographic - paste - poultice - prickly heat - regelation - slime - soft - squidgy - stratify - wet plate - wet rot

Forum discussions with the word(s) "moist" in the title:

"gentelmen [gentlemen] with faces like moist, contented hams"
I'm Moist. Please don't laugh.
It makes me feel all moist and husky
keep the soil in the pot moist/humid/wet
moist accent
moist water
Moist, damp and wet.
moist, sodden, saturated
moist/damp/wet
off-water (the cool, moist morning-air-off-water)
The moist wipes runs out.

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