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Wetter   /wˈɛtər/   Listen
Wetter

noun
1.
A chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved.  Synonyms: surface-active agent, surfactant, wetting agent.
2.
A workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process.
3.
Someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed.  Synonyms: bed wetter, bedwetter.


Wet

adjective
(compar. wetter; superl. wettest)
1.
Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water.  "Wet sidewalks" , "Wet weather"
2.
Containing moisture or volatile components.
3.
Supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages.  "A wet county"
4.
Producing or secreting milk.  Synonym: lactating.  "A wet cow" , "Lactating cows"
5.
Consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor.  "A wet canteen"
6.
Very drunk.  Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight.



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"Wetter" Quotes from Famous Books



... any wetter than we are," he declared. "And the sooner we reach the house the sooner we'll be able to change ...
— The Rover Boys on Land and Sea - The Crusoes of Seven Islands • Arthur M. Winfield
... distance my man turned to the right for the purpose of driving him out in my direction, but our hard and disagreeable hunt was to no purpose, and we returned to camp just before dark, having passed a wetter and more uncomfortable day than ...
— American Big Game in Its Haunts • Various
... morning on the plains with only my head out of water. I'd a' been drowned if I hadn't had the saddle under my head for a pillow. However, it doesn't matter a great sight. After it has been raining a little while a fellow can't get any wetter, ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in Texas - Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains • Frank Gee Patchin
... food, beginne to freeze vp, they draw towards those in the South coast, which are kept more open by the Summers neerer neighbourhood: and when the Summers heate (with the same effect from a contrarie cause) drieth vp those plashes, nature and necessitie guide their returne to the Northern wetter ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew
... feet are as wet as they can be, now," he said, "and if Aunt Polly is going to scold, getting them wetter won't ...
— Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm • Mabel C. Hawley


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