soaking

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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".

2. 2
   noun

   The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by some conservative Christians 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.

3. 3
   adj

   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.

4. 4
   adv

   extremely wet

5. 5
   noun

   washing something by allowing it to soak

6. 6
   noun

   the act of making something completely wet

7. 7
   noun

   the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)

8. 8
   verb

   present participle and gerund of soak

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum.