Word.ws English Dictionary

wetting the baby's head

wetting the baby's head is the present participle and gerund of wet the baby's head.

Meaning of wet the baby's head

Verb

wet the baby's head (third-person singular simple present wets the baby's head, present participle wetting the baby's head, simple past and past participle wet the baby's head or wetted the baby's head)

  1. (figuratively) To celebrate the birth of a baby by drinking alcohol.
    • He goes off to the pub with his mates to drink the time away, and after a phone call to the hospital that tells him he is now a father he 'wets the baby's head' with yet more alcohol.2011, Sheila Kitzinger, Rediscovering Birth

Questions about wetting the baby's head

What is wetting the baby's head the present participle and gerund of?
Wetting the baby's head is the present participle and gerund of wet the baby's head.

Words near wetting the baby's head in the dictionary

  1. wetting one's clay
  2. wetting one's pants
  3. wetting one's whistle
  4. wetting oneself
  5. wetting out
  6. wetting the baby's head
  7. wetting the bed
  8. wetting the other eye
  9. wetting the shamrock
  10. wetting through
  11. wetting-down

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wetting the baby's head (page history and authors); wet the baby's head (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wetting the baby's head.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wetting_the_baby%27s_head. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.