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wet someone's appetite

wet someone's appetite verb: eggcorn of whet someone's appetite.

Verb

wet someone's appetite (third-person singular simple present wets someone's appetite, present participle wetting someone's appetite, simple past and past participle wet someone's appetite or wetted someone's appetite)

  1. (proscribed) Eggcorn of whet someone's appetite

Forms of wet someone's appetite

third-person singular presentwets someone's appetite
present participlewetting someone's appetite
past participlewet someone's appetite
pastwet someone's appetite
past participlewetted someone's appetite
pastwetted someone's appetite

Origin of wet someone's appetite

Due to the rarity of whet (“to sharpen a knife; (figurative) to stimulate”) and an association of wet (“to make wet”) with salivating.

Questions about wet someone's appetite

What does wet someone's appetite mean?
Wet someone's appetite means eggcorn of whet someone's appetite.
What part of speech is wet someone's appetite?
Wet someone's appetite is a verb.
What is the past tense of wet someone's appetite?
The past tense of wet someone's appetite is wet someone's appetite.

Words near wet someone's appetite in the dictionary

  1. wet season
  2. wet seasons
  3. wet shaving
  4. wet signature
  5. wet signatures
  6. wet someone's appetite
  7. wet stacking
  8. wet suit
  9. wet suits
  10. wet sump
  11. wet sumps

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