Fool vs Wet - What's the difference?

Fool is a related term of wet.

In informal|lang=en terms the difference between fool and wet

is that fool is (informal) someone who derives pleasure from something specified while wet is (informal) of a person, ineffectual.

As nouns the difference between fool and wet

is that fool is (pejorative) a person with poor judgment or little intelligence while wet is liquid or moisture.

As verbs the difference between fool and wet

is that fool is to trick; to make a fool of someone while wet is to cover or impregnate with liquid.

As an adjective wet is

of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.

fool

English

Noun

(en noun)

(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.

The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.

* Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools' will learn in no ' other .

(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

(informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.

* Milton

Can they think me their fool or jester?

* 1975 , , "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):

I'm a fool for the city.

(cooking) A type of dessert made of d fruit and custard or cream.

an apricot fool'''; a gooseberry '''fool

A particular card in a tarot deck.

Synonyms

* (person with poor judgment) See also * (person who entertained a sovereign) jester, joker * (person who talks a lot of nonsense) gobshite

Verb

To trick; to make a fool of someone.

To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

* Dryden

Is this a time for fooling ?

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* befool * fool about * fool around * foolhardy * foolish * foolishness * foolometer * fool's errand * fool's gold * fool's paradise * foolproof * more fool you * play the fool * suffer fools gladly * there's no fool like an old fool

References

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wet

English

Adjective

(wetter)

Of an object, etc, covered with or impregnated with liquid.

I went out in the rain and now my clothes are all wet .

Of weather or a time period, rainy.

It’s going to be wet tomorrow.

* Milton

wet October's torrent flood

Made up of liquid or moisture.

Water is wet .

(informal) Of a person, ineffectual.

Don't be so wet .

(slang) Of a woman or girl, sexually aroused.

He got me all wet .

(slang, of a person) Inexperienced in a task or profession; having the characteristics of a rookie.

That guy's wet ; after all, he just started yesterday.

(of a scientist or laboratory) Working with chemical or biological matter.

(chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.

the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed

Permitting alcoholic beverages, as during Prohibition.

* 1995 , Richard F. Hamm, Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment

The wet states would be "the greatest beneficiaries" because the amendment would root out the liquor traffic within their cities.

(fountain pens and calligraphy) Depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.

* This pen's a wet writer, so it'll feather on this cheap paper.

(slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.

(Prior)

Covered in a sauce.

* 2000 , Robert Allen Palmatier, Food: a dictionary of literal and nonliteral terms , page 372

A chimichanga (MWCD: 1982) is a burrito that is deep-fried, rather than baked, and is served in the fashion of a wet burrito.

* 2005 , Restaurant business , Volume 104, Issues 1-10

The new item is its first "wet ," or sauce-topped, burrito.

* 2011 , J. Gabriel Gates, Charlene Keel, Dark Territory , page 13

But I'm getting the wet burrito.” Ignacio looked down at some sort of a tomato sauce–covered tortilla tube.

Synonyms

* (covered with liquid) damp, saturated, soaked * (of weather or a day) damp, raining, rainy * (sexually aroused) horny * (made up of liquid) wetting * (ineffectual) feeble, hopeless, useless * (inexperienced) green, wet behind the ears * (burrito) chimichanga

Antonyms

* (covered with liquid) dry * (of weather or a day) dry * (of a scientist or lab) dry

Derived terms

* all wet * wet bar * wet behind the ears * wet blanket * wetland * wet-look * wetware * wetwork

Noun

(en noun)

Liquid or moisture.

* Milton

Now the sun, with more effectual beams, / Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet / From drooping plant.

Rainy weather.

Don't go out in the wet .

(British, pejorative) A moderate Conservative.

(colloquial) An alcoholic drink.

* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, page 60:

‘A pity,’ said Jim, ‘I thought we was going to have a free wet .’

Verb

To cover or impregnate with liquid.

To urinate accidentally in or on.

Johnny wets the bed several times a week.

To become wet

Derived terms

* wet oneself * wet one's beak * wet one's whistle * wet the baby's head * wetten * wetting