Timeline for Word for "no longer dry"
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| Sep 30, 2018 at 1:35 | comment | added | tmgr | or to get a little judgemental on the booze: a whistle is wetted until it is slaked. | |
| Sep 30, 2018 at 1:32 | comment | added | tmgr | And there was me thinking you'd be happy with a Germanic verb that means hydrate. But a legititmate objection - I see the problem indeed. If I may: An appetite whetted's a sharp bellyache, but is whistle is wet whether dampened or slaked. Or you could do something with a drop. | |
| Sep 30, 2018 at 1:24 | comment | added | Quuxplusone | For the actual answer to my question, I still prefer J.R.'s "unparched" above all the other contenders so far. But it wasn't expressed as an answer (just a comment), and most damningly, it didn't come as a rhyming couplet. Apparently that's a requirement now. ;) | |
| Sep 30, 2018 at 1:22 | comment | added | Quuxplusone | Both "slake" and "quench" have the trouble mentioned in the question that they connote "satiated to fullness," whereas a wetted whistle is only a little bit wet; e.g., a single sip of water may wet your whistle but does not "slake" it. (So a whistle isn't wetted only when it is slaked — often you wet your whistle without slaking it.) I do like your second rhyme ("a brew down the chute"); not really an answer but very clever and reasonably accurate. :) | |
| Sep 29, 2018 at 13:54 | comment | added | tmgr | User Phil Sweet also has a lovely couplet in the comments on the question itself, which has all the sound of a proper proverbial warning passed down the generations. | |
| Sep 29, 2018 at 13:51 | history | answered | tmgr | CC BY-SA 4.0 |