Wet
Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.
Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.
Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.
Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
Water or wetness; moisture or humidity in considerable degree.
Rainy weather; foggy or misty weather.
A dram; a drink.
of Wet
To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a liquid; as, to wet a sponge; to wet the hands; to wet cloth.
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Wet Quotations
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
Will Rogers
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
Douglas Adams
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
William Faulkner
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
E. B. White
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Aeschylus
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
Raymond Chandler
Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.
Jeff Foxworthy
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
Robert Burns
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards."
Terry Pratchett
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
Robert Benchley
I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
Anthony Hopkins
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev
A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.
John Millington Synge
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.
Paula Abdul
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
Thomas More
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
Thomas de Quincey
How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can't throw a wet ball.
John Elway
People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
Pamela Anderson
The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.
Shana Alexander
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller
It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
Andy Goldsworthy
For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.
Hermann Maier
You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.
Morris Chestnut
In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.
Ethan Hawke
Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
Art Garfunkel
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Wet Translations
wet in Afrikaans is nat
wet in Dutch is nat
wet in French is humide, humecter
wet in Italian is umido, inumidire, bagnato
wet in Latin is madidus
wet in Portuguese is molhado
wet in Spanish is mojado, humadecer
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