wringing wet
English
Adjective
wringing wet
- So wet that water can be wrung out; very wet.
- Synonyms: dripping wet, soaking wet, sopping wet.
- 1566, William Adlington (translator), The Golden Ass by Apuleius, London: Henry Wykes, Chapter 5,
- […] they stridde ouer me, and slapped their buttockes vpon my face, and all bepissed me, till I was wringing wet:
- 1621, John Ashmore (translator), Certain Selected Odes of Horace, Englished, Ad Pirrham, Book 1, Ode 5, p. ,
- I hung to th’ Sea god, after strange beseeches,
- My doublet wringing wet, and cod-piec’t breeches.
- 1785, John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean, London: E. Newbery, Part 2, p. 319,
- The weather being fine and clear, we seized this opportunity to search for the leak, and, knowing it to be forwards, we moved the sails from the fore sail-room, and found them wringing wet;
- 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, London: Victor Gollancz, Part 1, Chapter 4, pp. 62-63,
- It is almost impossible to sleep on the floor, because the damp soaks up from below. I was shown mattresses which were still wringing wet at eleven in the morning.