pant-wetting

noun

Soiling of the pants (underwear) with urine.

Meanings

nounpant-wetting (uncountable)
  1. uncountableSoiling of the pants (underwear) with urine.

    Masturbation, pant wetting, and pica were infrequent.

    1950, American Psychosomatic Society, Psychosomatic Medicine
    1 more example

    King Lear is not only portrayed as doddering, reduced to lip-smacking and pant-wetting, but deprived of coherent speech as well.

    2001, Douglas Robinson, Who Translates?
adjectivepant-wetting (comparative more pant-wetting, superlative most pant-wetting)

comparative more pant-wetting · superlative most pant-wetting

  1. informalInvolving great fear or hilarity.

    I don't appreciate laughing myself into a pant-wetting asthma attack upon witnessing my 6'7", 215-pound spouse screaming like a little girl […]

    2007, Jen Lancaster, Bright Lights, Big Ass

Synonyms & antonyms

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