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wetter

wetter

1 8.9
A person, usually a child, who pees in bed while sleeping
  • noun
  • /ˈwɛtər/
  • Informal
translation icon : mojador
  • OH...UH, I'M NO WETTER THAN USUAL.
  • a bed-wetter

Examples

  • I hate retards, I can't stand mama's boys, bed wetters, sissies, pussies, beatniks.

  • Alan McGee of Creation Records has come out and said that your music was bed wetters' music.

  • But they say as a bed wetter, I should know this like I wet the bed.

  • Bed wetters have no place...

  • This is ice cream for bed-wetters.

  • Such masquerades would visit various houses at Christmas and be told to "run" any child who had been naughty; bed-wetters were prime targets.

    Academic text (1999)
  • My demos show that I'm most popular with felons and bed wetters.

  • You will, you will be getting a bed wetters unite T-shirt and I have a I have a weird feeling that this is going to become a huge, huge T-shirt.

  • The only symptom that was not alleviated by surgery in our series was enuresis; only 2 of the 11 children (18%) who were bed-wetters showed any improvement.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The doctor told the parents of the child that bed-wetters often outgrow the condition with age.

Synonyms

bedwetter
vswetter
3 7.9

A person, often a child, who pees in bed while asleep

is the same meaning but uses a shorter noun form
enuretic
vswetter
  • Specialized
9.9

A person who wets the bed or cannot control their pee

focuses specifically on involuntary urination that happens while a child sleeps in bed

Compounds

4 6.5

A person, usually a child, who pees in bed while asleep

Surface Forms

wetter singular
wetters plural

Morphology

wetter = wet (semi-transparent) = wet + er

Although the form is built regularly from 'wet' + '-er', the specific bed-wetting sense is a specialized and only partly predictable extension.

Etymology

Wetter is formed from wet and -er, meaning 'one who'. So a bed-wetter is exactly 'someone who wets the bed' while sleeping.