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pants-wettingly en · ADV

Etymology

From pants-wetting + -ly.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of pant-wettingly.
   alt of pant-wettingly
   • “Okay Google, tell app OFCUT active ward maximum strength now,” she speaks and scoots backwards as fast as she can on hands and knees, but Overholt is paying her no attention and she can’t tell whether it’s because her invisibility shield has held or because the unseen thing she’s reversing towards is so pants-wettingly terrifying— 2017, Charles Stross, The Delirium Brief, New York, N.Y.: Tor.com, →ISBN, page 365:
   • The lights mounted on the outside of the submarine allowed me to see everything in our general area, but everything beyond was covered in darkness. Terrible, horrible, knee-knockingly, teeth-chatteringly, pants-wettingly scary darkness. 2017, Eric Bower, “I Quickly Curled Up and Pretended to Be a Shell”, in The Splendid Baron Submarine (The Bizarre Baron Inventions), New York, N.Y.: Amberjack Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:
   • From the Bullseye Round and the Regular Round right through to the pants-wettingly exciting thrills of the Fast Money Round, the roller coaster of human passion and emotional giddiness that is Family Feud is here. 1995 June, Stretch Armstrong, “Family Feud”, in Hyper, →ISSN, page 65, column 1:
   • I’d been craving a challenge, and here it was. It was pants-wettingly terrifying, yes. But although I felt sick with nerves, I wanted to do it. 2017, Dave Lowe, “The Dadventure Begins”, in The Incredible Dadventure, London: Piccadilly Press, →ISBN, page 20:

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