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wringing wet

adj

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  1. So wet that water can be wrung out

    So wet that water can be wrung out; very wet.

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    • […] 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.

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