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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wet/wet/
adjective (wetter, wettest)
  • 1 covered or saturated with liquid.

    ■ (of the weather) rainy.

    ■ involving the use of water or liquid.

  • 2 (of paint, ink, etc.) not yet having dried or hardened.
  • 3 Brit. informal lacking forcefulness or strength of character; feeble.
  • 4 informal (of an area) allowing the free sale of alcoholic drink.
verb (wets, wetting; past and past part. wet or wetted) cover or touch with liquid.

■ (especially of a baby or young child) urinate in or on.

■ (wet oneself) urinate involuntarily.

dialect infuse (tea) by pouring on boiling water.

noun
  • 1 liquid that makes something damp.

    ■ (the wet) rainy weather.

    Brit. informal a drink.

  • 2 Brit. informal a feeble person.
  • 3 Brit. a Conservative politician (especially in the 1980s) with liberal tendencies.
  • 4 US a person opposed to the prohibition of alcohol.
– phrases
all wet N. Amer. completely wrong.
wet the baby's head Brit. informal celebrate a baby's birth with a drink.
wet behind the ears informal lacking experience; immature.
wet one's whistle informal have a drink.
– derivatives
wetly adverb,
wetness noun,
wettable adjective,
wettish adjective.
– origin OE wǣt (adj. and n.), wǣtan (v.); rel. to water.

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