Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which soaks. That which steeps, wets, or drenches, as a rain.
- n. A habitual drinker; one accustomed to drink spirituous liquors to excess; a toper.
Wiktionary
- n. One who, or that which, soaks.
- n. A person suffering from alcoholism.
- n. A kind of knitted woollen diaper.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, soaks.
- n. Slang A hard drinker.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a heavy rain
- n. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
Etymologies
- soak + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The recipe calls for two pre-doughs, a biga (Italian bread starter), which has to be refrigerated overnight, and a soaker, which is some of the flour (in this case-- it can also be whole grains) with liquid and sometimes a little salt.”
“The night before you want to bake, combine all the "soaker" ingredients in a small bowl.”
“One day he received a "soaker" of a snowball in his left ear while hurrying to the gymnasium.”
The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods
“VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - It's a yearly reminder, that could save you from getting a 'soaker'.”
“Full many a lad fell on the battlements that were thrown up in haste, only to rise again and fight until a "soaker," wrung out in the gutter and laid away to harden in the frost, caught him in the eye and sent him to the rear, a reeling, bawling invalid, but prouder of his hurt than any veteran of his scars, just as his gang carried the band stand by storm and drove the Seventh-streeters from the Garden in ignominious flight.”
“So tonight we move out again, to our own place, where I can drink a beer and sit on the patio with my super-soaker, keeping the parking lot safe from drunken idiots with illegal fireworks on my small rented patch of America.”
“Calling the storm a "super soaker," forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said it could dump 10 to 15 inches of rain throughout the region and trigger a storm surge of two to four feet.”
The Wall Street Journal: New Tropical Storm Threatens the Gulf
“The fully-furnished one-bedroom apartment boasted all the amenities you could ask for: a luxury bedroom, a spacious bathroom with both a big soaker tub and a rainhead shower, a fully equipped kitchen and a stylish, comfy living room.”
The Huffington Post: Natalie Bahadur: Three Nights in Bangkok
“Are you a chronic soaker of pricey gizmos, or are you just more careful than I am?”
“I like that, super-soaker for Mom from the lawnchair … Must do that this summer.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘soaker’.
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Rainy weather report.
Today's weather.
is it rain, sprinkles, showers, sleet, or drizzle?
Are those drops, droplets?
Is the weatherman just using the word precipitation?
Is the scientist causing ...rain, shower, sprinkle, sleet, drizzle, drops, droplets, precipitation, freezing rain, thundershower, mist, pour and 126 more...
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Sot
a partaker of a dram too many. consult also whichbe's Drunkie list
sot, toper, drunkard, boozehound, tosspot, wino, lick-wimble, souse, lush, alky, juicer, inebriate and 47 more...
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