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wettings

wettings is the plural of wetting.

Meaning of wetting

Noun

wetting (plural wettings)

  1. The act of making something wet.
    • It is usual to expect, that the first two or three wettings or steepings of grain, at the commencement of the malting season, will not make so good malt as succeeding steepings […]1838, George Adolphus Wigney, An Elementary Dictionary, Or, Cyclopaediae, for the Use of Maltsters, Brewers &c., page 28
  2. The act of accidental urination on or in something.
  3. (Multicultural-London-English, US, slang) An act of murdering or seriously injuring someone.
    • Earned my name name for all of them wettings
      If I let you live, then give blessings2018 August 25, (1011) Eleven X (Splash) Russ X Taze, here Taze, “Anti”, 3:01–3:05

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Questions about wettings

What is wettings the plural of?
Wettings is the plural of wetting.

Words near wettings in the dictionary

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

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