wet dream
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Noun
[edit]wet dream (plural wet dreams)
- An erotic dream bringing the sleeper to orgasm.
- 1985, David Lewis, "British playwright makes a mountain out of a Mole" (review of The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend), The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 9 Jan., page E22:
- His mother is having an affair with the man next door, is reading Germain Greer's The Female Eunuch—which spawns Adrian's first wet dream.
- 1985, David Lewis, "British playwright makes a mountain out of a Mole" (review of The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend), The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 9 Jan., page E22:
- (idiomatic) The orgasm in such a dream.
- (idiomatic, by extension) An exciting fantasy; a very appealing, ideal thing, person, or state of affairs.
- 1986 October 24, Liam Lacey, “Same old irresistible Seeger”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page D11:
- Bruce Springsteen may become middle America's wet dream.
- 2007, Addy Dugdale, "Betavoltaic Battery Could Power Your Laptop for Thirty Years," gizmodo.com, 2 Oct:
- The plan is, if all goes well, to have these batteries, an eco warrior's wet dream due to their non-toxicity, on sale in two or three years.
Synonyms
[edit]- (ejaculation): night emission, nocturnal emission
Translations
[edit]erotic dream
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ejaculation or orgasm while asleep — see nocturnal emission
greatly desired fantasy
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Verb
[edit]wet dream (third-person singular simple present wet dreams, present participle wet dreaming, simple past and past participle wet dreamed or wet dreamt)
- (intransitive) To produce fluids from the sex organs as a result of sexual arousal during sleep; to have an erotic dream; (figurative) to fantasize (about something, especially in a sexual way).
- 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 99:
- He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells, […]
- 1978, Larry Kramer, Faggots, New York: Warner Books, published 1979, page 85:
- […] he’d been wet dreaming for several months about such an opportunity as was obviously creeping up on both of them,
- 2005, Tyehimba Jess, Leadbelly, Amherst, MA: Verse Press, p. 33,[2]
- you is more a man than they ever wet dreamed to be
- (transitive) To have an erotic dream about (someone or something); (figurative) to fantasize about (someone or something) sexually.
- 1967, Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter[3], New York: Viking, Book 4, p. 136:
- […] the Bakst drawings imposed themselves on the shadowy sultans, sultanas, eunuchs, and pages […] the pageboy of the Fairy Cherry in panniered skirt and cherry-tree headdress―the very same he had dreamed, wet dreamed no doubt as well, pressed down, hemmed in by his wooden box.
- 2010, Paul Burman, The Grease Monkey’s Tale[4], London: PaperBooks, Part 1, Chapter 12, p. 71:
- […] she left so few traces of having ever existed at all that he began to wonder whether he hadn’t just wet-dreamt her into being.
- 2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 11, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, page 163:
- A rebel is a gleaming individual in tight Levi’s, a sneering and pretty face. The kind Sal Mineo wet-dreams.
References
[edit]- “wet dream”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "wet dream" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)