Soaking

Quick meaning: Soaking is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of soak.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of soak.

More Meanings

1. Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
2. Extremely wet; saturated.
3. Of rain, heavy but slow enough to penetrate deeply into the top soil.
4. 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.

Example Sentences

"We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains".

That's probably why everyone is already having anal sex in ninth grade. I mean, let's face it, even the Mormons are soaking.

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.

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.)

Word Forms

• soakings

Synonyms for soaking

Depending on context, synonyms include sodden, wet, saturated, souse, sopping, soaked.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sousing, drenching, soakage, sopping, drenched, sodden.

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