sopping wet

sopping wet

Totally soaked, drenched, or covered in some liquid, especially water. Hyphenated if used before a noun. Quick, come in out of that rain before you get sopping wet! You want to dip the bread into the egg mixture until it is sopping wet, then quickly put it on the hot skillet. I got out of my sopping-wet clothes and wrapped up in a dry, fluffy towel.
See also: sopping, wet
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sopping (wet)

and soppy
mod. alcohol intoxicated. (see also wet.) After about six beers, Ralph found himself a little soppy.
See also: sopping, wet
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • wiggy
  • rust bucket
  • a round robin
  • round robin
  • eleventh hour
  • heads I win, tails you lose
  • black market
  • a light touch
  • first hand
  • naughty but nice
References in periodicals archive
YOU'RE SOPPING WET! I BET YOU JUST CRAINEC THE HYPRAULIC RELIEF VALVE!
Point drain cock down
The only change noted was that the new product was indeed dry, not clumpy and sopping wet. It was such a non-event that only Laguna custom blend customers were notified of the change (as they are for all materials changes).
Laguna Clay Company offers Cornwall Stone Substitute for the third year: Julie Brooks calls attention to a published error
"Ho, ho," I said, as I removed my sopping wet shirt.
I am an accident waiting to happen
Two years after Rolling Stone carried a picture of her with the tag line: 'The Reinvention of Taylor Swift' showing the former country singer in a soaked-through vest, her hair sopping wet and giving the camera her best come hither look, we now have Taylor Swift 3.0.
I'M NOT SOLD ON SWIFT CHANGE
Everything that needs digging over can't be touched because it's sopping wet - I'd be carrying tons of heavy clay into the house.
Pray for rain as power cuts give me the shivers
She once turned up at a plush party wearing a woolly hat covering her uncombed, sopping wet hair.
Cara-ra BOOM on way; BRIT MODEL SET TO BE THE HOTTEST THING IN 2013; Best pals with Kate Moss and Ri-Ri...and such a prospect her agency asked her to dump 'too down market' Harry Styles; EXCLUSIVE
She even posed in a pair of sopping wet Y-fronts and a wet shirt tied at the front.
Alessandra Ambrosio poses nude for Brazilian cult mag
While everything was still sopping wet, wash out the brush and gently squeeze between the fingers.
Meal to light up evening
There are no wafts of loveliness - just two sopping wet teabaglookalikes in the bath.
lifestyle: Alison's diary
We then had to watch the team clutch a draw from the jaws of victory while getting sopping wet because the roof does not cover the first ten rows of seating.
Letter: A quick word; FOOTBALL
They piled their sopping wet gear into their packs and started down.
Veteran knows, and loves, the risk
The newspapers I used to cover the connections, adaptor and choke for the contraption were sopping wet, and I didn't want to end up a smoky wainscot.
The Swallow Prominent Moth; travel/country
I rushed upstairs to run a bath because I was sopping wet from walking all that way in the rain.
The MAG: REAL LIFE: I walked 26 miles unaware I was just about to give birth; Sandy Bailey, 38, completed the first-ever BRMB Walkathon when she was just 17 -unaware that she was nine months pregnant. Hours after the event she gave birth to baby Tony. She now lives in Erdington, Birmingham, with her husband Trevor and son Tony, who will this year share his 21st birthday with the charity walkathon event supported by the Sunday Mercury
''Yah 'll get the hang of it, '' the teacher said, uncertainly, looking at my scabby jumper and sopping wet trainers, while I dangled around like a traumatised chimp.
Lucy Sweet : In pole position for my new career as a sexy lapdancer
No more than 5 feet tall, and maybe 80 pounds sopping wet, Grandma is the engine that makes the ranch go.
Grandma's ranch. (The Country Life)