soaking

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Verb 1.2 Noun 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Translations

[edit] English

[edit] Verb

soaking

1. Present participle of soak.

[edit] Noun

soaking (plural soakings)

1. Immersed in water; a drenching or dunking.

   1906 "We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains". — Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy, Chapter 2.

[edit] Adjective

soaking

1. Pertaining to things that soak, or become extremely wet.

   1848 I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday. — Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 5.

[edit] Translations

Finnish: see: likomärkä fi(fi)