"wringing wet" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Head templates: {{en-adj|?}} wringing wet
  1. So wet that water can be wrung out; very wet. Synonyms: dripping wet, soaking wet, sopping wet
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          "ref": "1566, Apuleius, chapter 5, in William Adlington, transl., The Golden Ass, London: Henry Wykes:",
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          "text": "1621, John Ashmore (translator), Certain Selected Odes of Horace, Englished, Ad Pirrham, Book 1, Ode 5, p. ,\nI hung to th’ Sea god, after strange beseeches,\nMy doublet wringing wet, and cod-piec’t breeches."
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          "ref": "1785, John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean, London: E. Newbery, Part 2, p. 319:",
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