soaking wet

English

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Adjective

soaking wet (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Extremely wet.

   Synonyms: drenched, soaked to the bone, sopping wet, wet through, wringing wet

2. (informal, of a person's weight) As a maximum; at most.
   • 2005, Terry Mejdrich, The Devil's Kettle:

     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.

Translations

extremely wet

• Esperanto: malsekega
• Finnish: likomärkä (fi), litimärkä (fi), läpimärkä (fi), (colloquial) litsmärkä
• French: trempé comme une soupe (fr)
• German: klatschnass (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klissvåt, gjennomvåt, søkkvåt

  Nynorsk: klissvåt, gjennomvåt, søkkvåt

• Polish: mokry jak gnój
• Scottish Gaelic: bog fliuch
• Swedish: dyngsur (sv), plaskvåt (sv)

maximum (when speaking of a person's weight)

• Finnish: korkeimmillaan (fi)
• French: tout mouillé (fr)