wet (oneself)

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wet (oneself)

1. Literally, to urinate while wearing one's clothing. I had to go to the bathroom so bad that I'd nearly wet myself by the time I made it home. Sarah has just finished potty training, but she still wets herself from time to time.

2. To laugh hysterically or uncontrollably. (Usually used in the continuous tense.) Raj's new boyfriend is hilarious, he had us wetting ourselves through the whole lunch!

3. To be extremely excited or giddy. (Usually used in the continuous tense.) Abigail and I were nearly wetting ourselves with excitement for the concert to start!

ˈwet yourself

wet your ˈpants/ˈknickers

(informal) accidentally urinate (= get rid of water from your body) in your underwear: I was laughing so much I almost wet myself!

wet

1. mod. alcohol intoxicated. He’s been drinking since noon and is pretty wet.

2. mod. having to do with an area where is it legal to sell alcohol. (Compare this with dry.) Is it wet or dry in this county?

3. mod. feeble; in the manner of a nerd. Tom is totally wet. What a jerk.

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Those who find the word sausage "intrinsically funny" are in danger of wetting themselves when tripping across black pudding.

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Anne (Diamond) and Nick (Owen) were wetting themselves. It's rumoured that Ready Steady Cook is getting a reboot.

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Anne [Diamond] and Nick [Owen] were wetting themselves. It's rumoured that Ready Steady Cook is getting a reboot.

Ainsley Harriott

And if their stories weren't about them wetting themselves, then it was about a friend wetting themselves.

Woman's ex tries to blackmail her after she wets herself when drunk - but it doesn't go to plan; Kallie Berry finally got fed up of her ex's game and came clean

There will be pomp and pageantry and lots of silly hats and embarrassingly awful vox-pops conducted in its own inimitable way by the BBC whose presenters are all issued with special replacement underwear in the likely event of them wetting themselves with the squealing excitement of it all and yes, I hope it all goes swimmingly.

And they lived happily ever after

ATEACHERS' union has called on the next Welsh x Government to provide guidance on nappy changing after a rise in the number of pupils wetting themselves in school.

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Barone also advises parents not to wait too long to seek medical help if their children develop a bedwetting problem that persists past the age of six or seven, or are still wetting themselves during the day past the age of five or six.

Potty training advice for parents

While parents everywhere scrambled to put together a costume at 8.30am on Thursday morning, a mother and son from Greater Manchester were on their way to school, wetting themselves Now that's how you >Day!

Costume was fifty shades of wrong

Hugh Bonneville said: "I saw it with some five-year-olds the other day and the only danger they had was wetting themselves laughing."

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"I saw it with some five-year-olds the other day and the only danger they had was wetting themselves laughing"- Actor Hugh Bonneville on the PG rating given to the new Paddington Bear film.

THEY SAY

"Then my mom and sister came to the realisation and they started wetting themselves, but I had to be rushed to A&E."

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ANGRY parents are at war with a city headteacher amid claims children are wetting themselves after being refused permission to go to the loo and teachers have been crying in classes.

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Three gormless but harmless buffoons wetting themselves over someone winning a surprise bronze medal by sliding down a snowy obstacle course?

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"There's a poke in the eye to your Vorsprung Durch Technik" as a little jibe to those wetting themselves about German football.

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Common responses to traumatic events among children include regression (wetting themselves, sucking on a pacifier, etc.), increased separation anxiety and avoidance and fear of things linked to the event (like certain sounds).

One in five Be'er Sheva children display post-traumatic symptoms after missile fire

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