wet dream
2
8.1
- noun
- /wɛt drim/
- Offensive
:
sueño húmedo
- During sleep, he unexpectedly experienced a wet dream for the first time.
And he goes, this is the text yo I had another wet dream fat load in my shorts.
- And he goes, this is the text yo I had another wet dream fat load in my shorts.
- And the night before I had my first ever wet dream.
- Wow, bum man, and you haven't even had a wet dream or anything like that, huh?
Examples
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In 1953, sex researcher Alfred Kinsey found that nearly 40% of the women he interviewed had one or more nocturnal orgasms or 'wet dreams.'
Blog text (1) -
Catholic boys were no strangers to wet dreams in those days.
Fiction book (2000) -
The night before, Yu experienced a wet dream for the first time.
Fiction book (2002) -
It is possible to wake up during a wet dream, or to simply sleep through it.
Blog text (1) -
It was natural for Yu, who was at puberty, to have a wet dream.
Fiction book (2002) -
There is nothing unusual about having a wet dream during adolescence.
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Many teenagers report having wet dreams as they go through puberty.
Synonyms
1
8.7
A natural release of semen during sleep, often during a dream
Surface Forms
Morphology
wet + dream
The intended meaning 'an unrealistic hope or fantasy' (and the common literal sense 'nocturnal emission') cannot be predicted simply from 'wet' + 'dream' by a B1 learner: the phrase is idiomatic and culturally/sexually specific rather than compositionally built from the two words. Because its senses are conventionalized and require cultural knowledge or prior exposure, the MWE is not derivable from its parts and is therefore opaque.
Etymology
The noun wet dream comes from a simple, physical image: a dream with sexual content that leaves you wet in bed. It is a dream that makes a person release semen without control, so it means 'an erotic dream that results in involuntary ejaculation'.