soaking
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soaking
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum.
verb
- present participle and gerund of soak
noun soakings
- Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking. "We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains".
- The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by Mormons in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse. That's probably why everyone is already having anal sex in ninth grade. I mean, let's face it, even the Mormons are soaking.
adjective more soaking · most soaking
- Extremely wet; saturated. I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday.
- Of rain, heavy but slow enough to penetrate deeply into the top soil.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: sousing, drenching, soakage, sopping, drenched, sodden, soppy, wet, saturated, dripping, souse, dipping, flooding, penetrating, swimming, dumping
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adj extremely wet
| Italiano | zuppo, fradicio, bagnato fradicio |
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