wet

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages

   a wet candidate running on a wet platform

2. 2
   adj

   containing moisture or volatile components

   wet paint

3. 3
   noun

   wetness caused by water

   drops of wet gleamed on the window

4. 4
   verb

   make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating

   This child still wets their bed when they have a nightmare.

5. 5
   adj

   consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor

   a wet cargo

6. 6
   adj

   covered or soaked with a liquid such as water

   a wet bathing suit

7. 7
   adj

   producing or secreting milk

   a wet nurse

8. 8
   adj

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

   Water is wet.

Etymology

From Middle English wet (“wet, moistened”), wett, wette, past participle of Middle English weten (“to wet”), from Old English wǣtan (“to wet, moisten, water”), from Proto-West Germanic *wātijan, from Proto-Germanic *wētijaną (“to wet, make wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”) (also the source of water). Cognate with Scots weit, wete (“to wet”), Saterland Frisian wäitje (“to wet; drench”), Icelandic væta (“to wet”). Compare also Middle English weet (“wet”), from Old English wǣt (“wet, moist, rainy”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāt, from Proto-Germanic *wētaz (“wet, moist”), relat…