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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



... in a little heap by the bed, her face on the letter—her arms spread wide. The letter grew wetter and wetter, and her shoulders ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... was soon boarded by a messenger from Mr. Wetter, the outgoing American Consul at Madagascar, and I was piloted ashore. The view of Tamatave from the ship was not prepossessing, and my walk through the city to the hotel was not inspiring. The attempt ...
— Shadow and Light - An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century • Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
... wet handbill on his wetter coat-sleeve. 'She ain't a hedge. She's all manner o' trees. We'll just about have to—' He paused, ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... bleasant, We looket at de town Mit sonn-light on de shdeebles, Und wetter fanes doornin' round. Ve sat on de deck in a gorner Und dropled nopody dere, Vhen all aroundt oos de rowdies Peginned to plackguard ...
— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland
... We get—whatever you may state— Much rain. The Woodpecker of which fools sing Ne'er tapped Half so persistently. Since Spring I've rapped Your fair false dial day by day, And yet The end—whatever you may say Is wet! 'Twas wet in June, and in July Wet too; In August it is wetter. Why, Trust you? Barometer, you false old chap, You bore! I'm no Woodpecker, and I'll tap ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 29, 1891 • Various


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