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wettingly

wettingly adverb: in a wetting manner.

Adverb

wettingly (comparative more wettingly, superlative most wettingly)

  1. (rare) In a wetting manner.
    • The mizzling rain falls wettingly, / Few linger in the street; […]1846, Andrew MᶜEwen, “The Sorrow-stricken”, in Zayda, and Other Poems, Belfast: […] Lamont, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 127
    • Rain, dreary and wet, fell persistently and wettingly all day yesterday as on Saturday, and the east wind played a doleful accompaniment to its pattering on roofs and window panes, and to the eternal drip, drip, dripping.1898 February 21, “New York All Adrip: Churchgoers Buffeted by a High Wind and Drenched by a Dreary Downpour. […]”, in The New York Times, volume XLVII, number 15,012, New York, N.Y.: The New York...

Forms of wettingly

comparativemore wettingly
superlativemost wettingly

Origin of wettingly

From wetting + -ly.

Questions about wettingly

What does wettingly mean?
Wettingly means in a wetting manner.
What part of speech is wettingly?
Wettingly is an adverb.

Words near wettingly in the dictionary

  1. wetting the other eye
  2. wetting the shamrock
  3. wetting through
  4. wetting-down
  5. Wettingen
  6. wettingly
  7. wettings
  8. wettish
  9. Wetton
  10. Wettons
  11. Wettstein

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