Noun
Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
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"We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains".
The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by Mormons in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.
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That's probably why everyone is already having anal sex in ninth grade. I mean, let's face it, even the Mormons are soaking.
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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.)
Adjective
Extremely wet; saturated.
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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.
Noun
the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
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a good soak put life back in the wagon
the act of making something completely wet
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he gave it a good drenching
washing something by allowing it to soak
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Adverb
extremely wet
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dripping wet
soaking wet