Etymology

soaking

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Today it means: Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking. Full definition →

Middle English soukynge
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromsoukynge
  2. English todaysoaking

Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum.

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