get wet

get wet

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get wet (third-person singular simple present gets wet, present participle getting wet, simple past and past participle got wet)

1. (literally) To come into contact with water or another liquid.
   • 2004, Karen Hesse, The Music of Dolphins, page 84:

     Some things can go in the water, like my dolphin boots, but other things, like books, are not so good when they get wet.

2. (idiomatic) Of a woman, to become sexually aroused, as indicated by the occurrence of the natural lubrication of the vagina.
   • 2002, Sallie Foley, Sally A. Kope, Dennis P. Sugrue, Sex Matters for Women: A Complete Guide to Taking Care of Your Sexual Self, p. 281:

     Sometimes I get wet right away, but other times I'm aroused but not very wet.

Translations

come into contact with water

Chinese: Cantonese: 整濕, 整湿 (zing2 sap1), 淋雨 (lam4 jyu5) (in the rain) Mandarin: 弄濕, 弄湿 (nòngshī), 淋雨 (zh) (línyǔ) (in the rain) Finnish: kastua (fi)

Galician: mollar (gl) Quechua: sut'uy Russian: please add this translation if you can

of a woman, to become sexually aroused

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

Finnish: kostua (fi) Russian: please add this translation if you can