English Explanatory Dictionary

soaking

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. present participle and gerund of soak
noun
  1. Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
  2. The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by some conservative Christians in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.
adj
  1. Extremely wet; saturated.
  2. Of rain, heavy but slow enough to penetrate deeply into the top soil.

Word forms

soaking soakings more soaking most soaking

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum.

Derived words

soakingly soaking wet
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