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wetting the shamrock

wetting the shamrock is the present participle and gerund of wet the shamrock.

Meaning of wet the shamrock

Verb

wet the shamrock (third-person singular simple present wets the shamrock, present participle wetting the shamrock, simple past and past participle wet the shamrock or wetted the shamrock)

  1. (Ireland, idiomatic, informal, intransitive) To go for an alcoholic drink, especially as part of a victory celebration or on Saint Patrick's Day.
    • The Meadovv Trefoyls are called in Iriſh Shamrocks, […] The VVord Seamar Leaune and Seamar-orge, being in ſignification the ſame, […] This Plant is vvorn by the People in their Hats upon the 17. Day of March yearly, (vvhich is called St. Patrick’s Day.) […] Hovvever that be, vvhen they vvet their...[1727, Caleb Threlkeld, “TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE ALBUM, White Flowered Meadow Trefoyl.”, in Synopsis stirpium Hibernicarum alphabetic[a]e dispositarum. Sive commentatio de plantis indigenis præsertim...

Questions about wetting the shamrock

What is wetting the shamrock the present participle and gerund of?
Wetting the shamrock is the present participle and gerund of wet the shamrock.

Words near wetting the shamrock in the dictionary

  1. wetting oneself
  2. wetting out
  3. wetting the baby's head
  4. wetting the bed
  5. wetting the other eye
  6. wetting the shamrock
  7. wetting through
  8. wetting-down
  9. Wettingen
  10. wettingly
  11. wettings

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