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wet-noodle en · NOUN

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  1. (attributive) Wet noodle.
    • No matter how slimy the other Guy's wet-noodle handshake may be, never crush his hand. 2013, Garland H. Green, W.P. Myers, Dan W. Hartshorn, Guy Rules, →ISBN:
    • Perfectly cool because, as I swim, it keeps my body temperature cool, allowing me to “go the distance” before my body gives out from the “wet-noodle” effect of heat. 2008, Jeffrey N. Gingold, Mental Sharpening Stones:
    • Using a narrative approach—rather than the more conventional concept-based approach to theologizing—Patrick ably guides us beyond rigid fundamentalism, wet-noodle liberalism, and technique-based ecclesiology to a kind of direct engagement with the Spirit that is as wholesome as it is life-transforming. 2007, Patrick Oden, It's a Dance, →ISBN, page xii:
    • As I stumbled with wet-noodle legs onto what was now the disembarkation platform, Zed remarked that I had turned “a most peculiar shade of green." 2007, Rex A. Ewing, Hydrogen - Hot Stuff, Cool Science: Discover the Future of Energy, →ISBN, page 191:
    • Then they began to wallow, swatting at each other with their wet-noodle trunks. 2008, Caitlin O'Connell, The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa, →ISBN: