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wet dream en · NOUN

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1. An erotic dream (imaginary vision while sleeping) bringing the sleeper to orgasm.
   • 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
2. (broadly) The orgasm in such a dream.
3. (figuratively) An exciting fantasy; a very appealing, ideal thing, person, or state of affairs.
   • Bruce Springsteen may become middle America's wet dream. 1986 October 24, Liam Lacey, “Same old irresistible Seeger”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page D11:
   • 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. 2007, Addy Dugdale, "Betavoltaic Battery Could Power Your Laptop for Thirty Years," gizmodo.com, 2 Oct

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Synonyms

night emission (ejaculation) · nocturnal emission (ejaculation)

Translations (30)

ru сексуа́льная фанта́зия (greatly desired fantasy) · ja 夢精 (erotic dream) · ko 몽정 (erotic dream) · es sueño / ensueño húmedo / mojado / erótico (erotic dream) · tr ıslak rüya (erotic dream) · hi स्वप्नदोष (erotic dream) · de Pollution (erotic dream) · el ονείρωξη (erotic dream) · nl natte droom (greatly desired fantasy) · de feuchter Traum (greatly desired fantasy) · cmn 春夢 /春梦 (erotic dream) · fi märkä uni (greatly desired fantasy) · cmn 意淫 (greatly desired fantasy) · pl mokry sen (erotic dream) · nl nachtejeculatie (erotic dream) · grc ὀνειρωγμός (erotic dream) · nl natte droom (erotic dream) · el ονείρωξη (greatly desired fantasy) · fr carte de France (erotic dream) · fr pollution nocturne (erotic dream) · de feuchter Traum (erotic dream) · id mimpi basah (erotic dream) · ru эроти́ческий сон (greatly desired fantasy) · cmn 幻想 (greatly desired fantasy) · ru мо́крый сон (greatly desired fantasy) · fi märkä uni (erotic dream) · pt sonho molhado (erotic dream) · ru поллю́ция (erotic dream) · it polluzione (erotic dream) · mi moetoa (erotic dream)

wet dream en · VERB

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1. (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).
   • […] he’d been wet dreaming for several months about such an opportunity as was obviously creeping up on both of them, 1978, Larry Kramer, Faggots, New York: Warner Books, published 1979, page 85:
   • 2005, Tyehimba Jess, Leadbelly, Amherst, MA: Verse Press, p. 33, you is more a man than they ever wet dreamed to be
   • That was the only sex she had ever wet-dreamed about. 1997, Nik Cohn, Need, New York: Knopf, page 137:
   • He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells, […] 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 99:
2. (transitive) To have an erotic dream about (someone or something); (figurative) to fantasize about (someone or something) sexually.
   • […] 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. 2010, Paul Burman, The Grease Monkey’s Tale, London: PaperBooks, Part 1, Chapter 12, p. 71:
   • A rebel is a gleaming individual in tight Levi’s, a sneering and pretty face. The kind Sal Mineo wet-dreams. 2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 11, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, page 163:
   • […] 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. 1967, Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter, New York: Viking, Book 4, p. 136:

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