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soakings

soakings is the plural of soaking.

Meaning of soaking

Noun

soaking (countable and uncountable, plural soakings)

  1. Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
    • "We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains".1906, Horatio Alger, chapter 2, in Joe the Hotel Boy, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014
  2. The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by Mormons in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.
    • That's probably why everyone is already having anal sex in ninth grade. I mean, let's face it, even the Mormons are soaking.2017, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 240

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Questions about soakings

What is soakings the plural of?
Soakings is the plural of soaking.

Words near soakings in the dictionary

  1. soaking away
  2. soaking in
  3. soaking up
  4. soaking wet
  5. soakingly
  6. soakings
  7. soaks
  8. soaks away
  9. soaks in
  10. soaks up
  11. soakt

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