Wet

v.

Heard in Offaly

To pour boiling water over tea leaves in a pot to brew.

I'll wet the tay, and ye cut the soda bread.

Posh English

I shall infuse the tea leaves, and you shall carve the soda bread.

Related terms

• Wet the tayTo add boiling water to tea leaves in order to brew a pot of tea.
• Wet the teaTo brew or prepare a pot of tea.
• A wet blanketAn unresponsive woman.
• Are ya wet?A cheeky greeting, often to a group of women.
• 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.