Are ya wet?

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Heard in Sligo

A cheeky greeting, often to a group of women.

To a bunch of ladies How's the women, are ye wet?

Posh English

How are the ladies; are you wet?

Related terms

• A wet blanketAn unresponsive woman.
• Couldn't bate his way out of a wet paperbagA weak or ineffectual person, quite unable to assert himself. Bate means 'beat'.
• Have a head like a lump of wet turfTo be very ugly.
• He couldn't punch a hole through a wet paper bagA person lacking physical strength or force.
• Madder than a wet henIn a state of furious anger or severe agitation.
• WetTo pour boiling water over tea leaves in a pot to brew.