soaking
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- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of soaking
5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of soak
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verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of soak
noun
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(countable, uncountable)Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
“"We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains".”
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(countable, uncountable)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.
“That's probably why everyone is already having anal sex in ninth grade. I mean, let's face it, even the Mormons are soaking.”
“Mormonism is a culture very much predicated on puritanical commitments[…]the Amazon series Alpha House[…]made much of Mormon soaking, an alternative sex practice engaged in by two LDS characters on the show. Soaking basically allows for penis-vagina penetration but absolutely no friction. Insertion is OK; pumping will send you to hell.”
“This all-or-nothing attitude implies that penetration equal sex. (Although throngs of folks raised in abstinence-based religions might [take this view]. My favorite is the Mormon concept of "soaking," which means a man sticks his penis in a vagina but doesn't move it around, therefore it somehow doesn't count as sex. Gimme a break.)”
adj
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Extremely wet; saturated.
“I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday.”
- Of rain, heavy but slow enough to penetrate deeply into the top soil.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum.
Words you can make from soaking
119 playable · top: ASKING (11 pts)
Best play asking 11 points6-letter words
2 words5-letter words
17 words4-letter words
46 words- GANK 9 pts
- GINK 9 pts
- KING 9 pts
- SKAG 9 pts
- AKIN 8 pts
- IKON 8 pts
- INKS 8 pts
- KAIN 8 pts
- KAON 8 pts
- KINA 8 pts
- KINO 8 pts
- KINS 8 pts
- KOAN 8 pts
- KOAS 8 pts
- KOIS 8 pts
- OAKS 8 pts
- OIKS 8 pts
- OINK 8 pts
- OKAS 8 pts
- SAKI 8 pts
- SANK 8 pts
- SIKA 8 pts
- SINK 8 pts
- SKIN 8 pts
- SOAK 8 pts
- AGIN 5 pts
- AGIO 5 pts
- AGON 5 pts
- GAIN 5 pts
- GINS 5 pts
- GOAS 5 pts
- NAGS 5 pts
- NOGS 5 pts
- SAGO 5 pts
- SANG 5 pts
- SIGN 5 pts
- SING 5 pts
- SNAG 5 pts
- SNOG 5 pts
- SONG 5 pts
- AINS 4 pts
- ANIS 4 pts
- IONS 4 pts
- NAOI 4 pts
- NAOS 4 pts
- SAIN 4 pts
3-letter words
35 words- ASK 7 pts
- INK 7 pts
- KAS 7 pts
- KIN 7 pts
- KIS 7 pts
- KOA 7 pts
- KOI 7 pts
- KOS 7 pts
- OAK 7 pts
- OIK 7 pts
- OKA 7 pts
- SKA 7 pts
- SKI 7 pts
- AGO 4 pts
- AGS 4 pts
- GAN 4 pts
- GAS 4 pts
- GIN 4 pts
- GIS 4 pts
- GOA 4 pts
- GOS 4 pts
- NAG 4 pts
- NOG 4 pts
- SAG 4 pts
- SIG 4 pts
- AIN 3 pts
- AIS 3 pts
- ANI 3 pts
- INS 3 pts
- ION 3 pts
- NOS 3 pts
- ONS 3 pts
- SAN 3 pts
- SIN 3 pts
- SON 3 pts
2-letter words
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