soaking wet

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Adjective

soaking wet (not comparable)

(idiomatic) Extremely wet.
Synonyms: drenched, soaked to the bone, sopping wet, wet through, wringing wet
(informal, of a person's weight) As a maximum; at most.
- 2005, Terry Mejdrich, The Devil's Kettle:
  I weigh one hundred eight pounds soaking wet, I work out because it's important to me to stay in shape, and I'm not half as fragile as you think I am.

Translations

extremely wet

Esperanto: malsekega
Finnish: likomärkä (fi), litimärkä (fi), läpimärkä (fi), (colloquial) litsmärkä
French: trempé comme une soupe (fr)
German: klatschnass (de)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: klissvåt, gjennomvåt, søkkvåt

Nynorsk: klissvåt, gjennomvåt, søkkvåt
Polish: mokry jak gnój
Scottish Gaelic: bog fliuch
Swedish: dyngsur (sv), plaskvåt (sv)

maximum (when speaking of a person's weight)

Finnish: korkeimmillaan (fi)
French: tout mouillé (fr)

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