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  • 1 wet

    [wet] 1. adjective
    1) (containing, soaked in, or covered with, water or another liquid: We got soaking wet when it began to rain; His shirt was wet through with sweat; wet hair; The car skidded on the wet road.) moker
    2) (rainy: a wet day; wet weather; It was wet yesterday.) deževen
    2. verb
    (to make wet: She wet her hair and put shampoo on it; The baby has wet himself / his nappy / the bed.) zmočiti, pomočiti (se)
    3. noun
    1) (moisture: a patch of wet.) vlaga
    2) (rain: Don't go out in the wet.) dež
    •
    - wet blanket
    - wet-nurse
    - wetsuit
    - wet through
    * * *
    I [wet]
    1.
    noun
    mokrota, vlaga; voda, dež, deževno vreme; slang pijača; požirek; American nasprotnik prohibicije;
    2.
    adjective
    moker, premočen, še ne suh, (na)vlažen, namočen; deževen; bogat s padavinami; konserviran (v steklenicah); American ki ni pod prohibicijo; ki glasuje, je proti prohibiciji; slang obrnjen, napačen; nor, prismojen
    wet behind the ears figuratively moker za ušesi, neizkušen
    wet blanket figuratively hladna prha, kvarilec dobrega razpoloženja
    wet bargain — kupčija, potrjena s kozarcem vina
    wet bob — študent iz Etona, ki se bavi z vodnim športom
    wet paint! — sveže (pre)pleskano!
    wet goods American commerce blago (roba) v tekočem stanju, colloquially alkoholne pijače
    you are all wet slang si popolnoma na krivi, napačni poti
    II [wet]
    transitive verb
    na-, pre-, z-močiti; navlažiti; slang proslaviti (dogodek) s pijačo, zaliti; intransitive verb zmočiti se, postati moker
    to wet one's whistle ( —ali clay) — colloquially popiti (ga) kozarček, zmočiti si grlo

    English-Slovenian dictionary > wet

  • 2 whistle

    ['wisl] 1. verb
    1) (to make a shrill, often musical, sound by forcing one's breath between the lips or teeth: Can you whistle?; He whistled to attract my attention; He whistled a happy tune.) žvižgati
    2) (to make such a sound with a device designed for this: The electric kettle's whistling; The referee whistled for half-time.) (za)piskati
    3) (to make a shrill sound in passing through the air: The bullet whistled past his head.) žvižgati
    4) ((of the wind) to blow with a shrill sound.) žvižgati
    2. noun
    1) (the sound made by whistling: He gave a loud whistle to his friend across the road.) žvižg
    2) (a musical pipe designed to make a whistling noise.) piščal
    3) (an instrument used by policemen, referees etc to make a whistling noise: The referee blew his whistle at the end of the game.) piščalka
    * * *
    I [wisl]
    noun
    žvižg, pisk, žvižganje, signal z žvižgom; piščalka; colloquially grlo, goltanec
    whistle stop American majhna postaja; volilna turneja (za predsedništvo)
    to blow a whistle — zapiskati, zažvižgati
    to pay (dear) for one's whistle figuratively drago plačati (svojo) šalo
    to wet one's whistle — zmočiti si grlo, napiti se
    II [wisl]
    1.
    intransitive verb
    (za)žvižgati, požvižgavati; piskati na piščal(ko); dati znak z žvižgom; vršeti (veter), šumeti, žvižgati (krogla);
    2.
    transitive verb
    žvižgati; music igrati na flavto; poklicati z žvižgom
    to whistle for a wind nautical žvižgati za veter (pri brezvetrju)
    you may whistle for it colloquially figuratively na to lahko še dolgo čakaš
    to whistle s.o. — požvižgati komu
    to whistle back, to whistle up — poklicati z žvižgom, požvižgati (komu)
    to whistle off colloquially popihati jo

    English-Slovenian dictionary > whistle

См. также в других словарях:

  • wet one's whistle — {v. phr.}, {slang} To have a drink, especially of liquor. * /Uncle Willie told John to wait outside for a minute while he went in to the cafe to wet his whistle./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • wet one's whistle — {v. phr.}, {slang} To have a drink, especially of liquor. * /Uncle Willie told John to wait outside for a minute while he went in to the cafe to wet his whistle./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • wet one's whistle — ► wet one s whistle informal have a drink. Main Entry: ↑wet …   English terms dictionary

  • wet one's whistle — phrasal : to take a drink tis a hot day and I think our friends will need to wet their whistles before long Boys Life * * * wet one s whistle (informal) see under ↑whistle • • • Main Entry: ↑wet wet one s whistle (informal) To take an alcoholic… …   Useful english dictionary

  • wet one's whistle — idi wet one s whistle, to take a drink …   From formal English to slang

  • To wet one's whistle — Wet Wet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wet} (rarely {Wetted}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Wetting}.] [AS. w[=ae]tan.] To fill or moisten with water or other liquid; to sprinkle; to cause to have water or other fluid adherent to the surface; to dip or soak in a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • wet one's whistle — verb To have a drink; to quench ones thirst. Ill take another glass of the sherry wine, just to wet my whistle, as the vulgar saying is, before I begin …   Wiktionary

  • wet\ one's\ whistle — v. phr. slang To have a drink, especially of liquor. Uncle Willie told John to wait outside for a minute while he went in to the cafe to wet his whistle …   Словарь американских идиом

  • wet one's whistle — have a drink, especially alcohol They decided to stop at a bar on the way home from work to wet their whistle …   Idioms and examples

  • wet one's whistle — phrasal to take a drink especially of liquor …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • wet one's whistle — have a drink (especially an alcoholic drink) …   English contemporary dictionary

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