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wet dreaming

wet dreaming is the present participle and gerund of wet dream.

Meaning of wet dream

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. (intransitive) To produce fluids from the sex organs as a result of sexual arousal during sleep; to have an erotic dream; (figurative) to fantasize (about something, especially in a sexual way).
    • He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells, […]1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 99
  2. (transitive) To have an erotic dream about (someone or something); (figurative) to fantasize about (someone or something) sexually.
    • […] the Bakst drawings imposed themselves on the shadowy sultans, sultanas, eunuchs, and pages […] the pageboy of the Fairy Cherry in panniered skirt and cherry-tree headdress―the very same he had dreamed, wet dreamed no doubt as well, pressed down, hemmed in by his wooden box.1967, Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter, New York: Viking, Book 4, p. 136

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Questions about wet dreaming

What is wet dreaming the present participle and gerund of?
Wet dreaming is the present participle and gerund of wet dream.

Words near wet dreaming in the dictionary

  1. wet docks
  2. wet dog shakes
  3. wet down
  4. wet dream
  5. wet dreamed
  6. wet dreaming
  7. wet dreams
  8. wet dreamt
  9. wet dress rehearsal
  10. wet dress rehearsals
  11. wet edge time

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