wet

Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.

Water is wet.

Đồng nghĩa: wetting

Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.

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

The baby is wet and needs its nappy changed.

Đồng nghĩa: damp, saturated, soaked

Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.

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.

Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.

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

Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.

Of weather or a time period: rainy.

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,

Đồng nghĩa: damp, raining, rainy

(aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.

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.

(slang)Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.

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

Đồng nghĩa: green, wet behind the ears

(slang, vulgar)(slang, vulgar, of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.

He got me all wet.

Đồng nghĩa: horny, moist

(British, slang)Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.

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.

Đồng nghĩa: feeble, hopeless, useless, drip

(retronym)Permitting alcoholic beverages.

(archaic, slang)Refreshed with liquor; drunk.

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

Đồng nghĩa: inebriated, soused, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, binned, bingoed, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, clobbered, corned, cocked, cockeyed, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, feeling no pain, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half polluted, half cut, half lit, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, high, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kettled, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mabok, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, Mozart and Liszt, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, MWI, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, Oliver, Oliver Twist, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, soshed, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight as a tick, tight, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

(biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.

(chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.

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

(euphemistic, slang)Involving assassination or "wet work".

a wet affair; a wet job; wet stuff

(slang)(poker slang) Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).

(colloquial, dated, obsolete)(dated or obsolete, colloquial) Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.

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.

With a usual complement or consummation; potent.

(countable, uncountable)Liquid or moisture.

(countable, uncountable)Rainy weather.

Don't go out in the wet.

(Australia, countable, uncountable)Rainy season. (often capitalized)

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.

(British, UK, countable, derogatory, uncountable)(British, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

(colloquial, countable, uncountable)An alcoholic drink.

(US, colloquial, countable, uncountable)One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.

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

(countable, in plural, uncountable)(motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.

(colloquial, countable, derogatory, uncountable)A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.

(alt of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).

(transitive)To cover or impregnate with liquid.

Đồng nghĩa: drench, get wet, soak, sog

(intransitive, transitive)To make or become wet.

Đồng nghĩa: dampen, dew, get wet, moisten

(transitive)To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.

Johnny wets the bed several times a week.

She was laughing so hard she wet her pants.

(transitive)(transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.

(informal, transitive)To celebrate by drinking alcohol.

to wet the baby’s head

(Multicultural London English, US, slang)(US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.

Đồng nghĩa: do away with, do violence to, abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, forwork, grieve, harm, harrow, hurt, injure, maul, misdo, put someone in hospital, scaith, scathe, vulnerate, wet, wound, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, ex, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, grease, knock off, lay waste to, make away with, merc, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, pop off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put someone out of their misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, slay, slaughter, slime out, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, stop someone's clock, take, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top off, top, torpedo, take care of, take down, take out, waste, wax, wet, whack, wipe out, wreck

(alt of, misspelling)Misspelling of whet.