wet dream

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

wet dream (plural wet dreams)

1. (idiomatic) An ejaculation or orgasm while asleep, often accompanying an erotic dream.
   • 1985, David Lewis, "British playwright makes a mountain out of a Mole" (review of The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend), The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 9 Jan., page E22:

     His mother is having an affair with the man next door, is reading Germain Greer's The Female Eunuch—which spawns Adrian's first wet dream.

2. (idiomatic, by extension) An exciting fantasy; a very appealing, ideal thing, person, or state of affairs.
   • 1986, Liam Lacey, "Same old irresistible Seeger," The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 24 Oct., page D11:

     Bruce Springsteen may become middle America's wet dream.

   • 2007, Addy Dugdale, "Betavoltaic Battery Could Power Your Laptop for Thirty Years," gizmodo.com, 2 Oct:

     The plan is, if all goes well, to have these batteries, an eco warrior's wet dream due to their non-toxicity, on sale in two or three years.

Synonyms

• (ejaculation): night emission, nocturnal emission

Translations

ejaculation or orgasm while asleep — see nocturnal emission

literally

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夢遺／梦遗 (zh) (mèngyí), 梦遗 (zh) (mèngyí), 遺精／遗精 (zh) (yíjīng), 遗精 (zh) (yíjīng)

• Dutch: natte droom, nachtejeculatie
• Finnish: märkä uni
• French: pollution nocturne f
• German: feuchter Traum (de) m; (medical:) Pollution f
• Greek: ονείρωξη (el) f (oneíroxi)

  Ancient: ὀνειρωγμός m (oneirōgmós)

• Hindi: स्वप्नदोष (hi) (svapnadoṣ)
• Indonesian: mimpi basah
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• Italian: polluzione (it)
• Japanese: 夢精 (musei)
• Korean: 몽정 (ko) (mongjeong)
• Maori: moetoa
• Portuguese: sonho molhado m
• Russian: поллю́ция (ru) f (polljúcija)
• Spanish: sueño húmedo m, sueño mojado m
• Turkish: ıslak rüya (tr)

figuratively

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幻想 (zh) (huànxiǎng), 意淫 (zh) (yìyín)

• Dutch: natte droom
• Finnish: märkä uni
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• German: feuchter Traum (de) m
• Greek: ονείρωξη (el) f (oneíroxi)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: сексуа́льная фанта́зия f (sɛksuálʹnaja fantázija), эроти́ческий сон m (erotíčeskij son), мо́крый сон m (mókryj son)

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} polución nocturna f
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Verb

wet dream (third-person singular simple present wet dreams, present participle wet dreaming, simple past and past participle wet dreamed or wet dreamt)

1. To produce fluids from the sex organs as a result of sexual arousal.

References

• “wet dream”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Template:R:Encarta
• "wet dream" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)