"soaking wet" meaning in English

See soaking wet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: En-au-soaking wet.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} soaking wet (not comparable)
  1. (idiomatic) Extremely wet. Tags: idiomatic, not-comparable Synonyms: drenched, soaked to the bone, sopping wet, wet through, wringing wet Translations (extremely wet): malsekega (Esperanto), likomärkä (Finnish), litimärkä (Finnish), läpimärkä (Finnish), litsmärkä [colloquial] (Finnish), trempé comme une soupe (French), klatschnass (German), klissvåt (Norwegian Bokmål), gjennomvåt (Norwegian Bokmål), søkkvåt (Norwegian Bokmål), klissvåt (Norwegian Nynorsk), gjennomvåt (Norwegian Nynorsk), søkkvåt (Norwegian Nynorsk), mokry jak gnój (Polish), bog fliuch (Scottish Gaelic), dyngsur (Swedish), plaskvåt (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-soaking_wet-en-adj-qDik29CI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 14 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 94 6 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 93 7 Disambiguation of 'extremely wet': 100 0
  2. (informal, of a person's weight) As a maximum; at most. Tags: informal, not-comparable Translations (maximum (when speaking of a person's weight)): korkeimmillaan (Finnish), tout mouillé (French)
    Sense id: en-soaking_wet-en-adj-UZsvbE~i Disambiguation of "maximum (when speaking of a person's weight)": 37 63

Download JSON data for soaking wet meaning in English (4.1kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "soaking wet (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Extremely wet."
      ],
      "id": "en-soaking_wet-en-adj-qDik29CI",
      "links": [
        [
          "wet",
          "wet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Extremely wet."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "drenched"
        },
        {
          "word": "soaked to the bone"
        },
        {
          "word": "sopping wet"
        },
        {
          "word": "wet through"
        },
        {
          "word": "wringing wet"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "malsekega"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "likomärkä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "litimärkä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "läpimärkä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "tags": [
            "colloquial"
          ],
          "word": "litsmärkä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "trempé comme une soupe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "klatschnass"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "klissvåt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "gjennomvåt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "søkkvåt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "klissvåt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "gjennomvåt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "søkkvåt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "mokry jak gnój"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "bog fliuch"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "dyngsur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "extremely wet",
          "word": "plaskvåt"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Terry Mejdrich, The Devil's Kettle",
          "text": "I weigh one hundred eight pounds soaking wet, I work out because it's important to me to stay in shape, and I'm not half as fragile as you think I am.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "As a maximum; at most."
      ],
      "id": "en-soaking_wet-en-adj-UZsvbE~i",
      "links": [
        [
          "maximum",
          "maximum"
        ],
        [
          "at most",
          "at most"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, of a person's weight) As a maximum; at most."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person's weight"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "37 63",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "maximum (when speaking of a person's weight)",
          "word": "korkeimmillaan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "37 63",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "maximum (when speaking of a person's weight)",
          "word": "tout mouillé"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-soaking wet.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/75/En-au-soaking_wet.ogg/En-au-soaking_wet.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/En-au-soaking_wet.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soaking wet"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English compound adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "soaking wet (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Extremely wet."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wet",
          "wet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Extremely wet."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "drenched"
        },
        {
          "word": "soaked to the bone"
        },
        {
          "word": "sopping wet"
        },
        {
          "word": "wet through"
        },
        {
          "word": "wringing wet"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Terry Mejdrich, The Devil's Kettle",
          "text": "I weigh one hundred eight pounds soaking wet, I work out because it's important to me to stay in shape, and I'm not half as fragile as you think I am.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "As a maximum; at most."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "maximum",
          "maximum"
        ],
        [
          "at most",
          "at most"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, of a person's weight) As a maximum; at most."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person's weight"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-soaking wet.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/75/En-au-soaking_wet.ogg/En-au-soaking_wet.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/En-au-soaking_wet.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "malsekega"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "likomärkä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "litimärkä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "läpimärkä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "litsmärkä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "trempé comme une soupe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "klatschnass"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "klissvåt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "gjennomvåt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "søkkvåt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "klissvåt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "gjennomvåt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "søkkvåt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "mokry jak gnój"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "bog fliuch"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "dyngsur"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "extremely wet",
      "word": "plaskvåt"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "maximum (when speaking of a person's weight)",
      "word": "korkeimmillaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "maximum (when speaking of a person's weight)",
      "word": "tout mouillé"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soaking wet"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.