wet wipe

plural wet wipes

1. A small moistened piece of paper or cloth for cleaning or personal hygiene, often folded and individually wrapped for convenience.

   He opened it and took out a flattened bag of wet wipes and a packet of sherbet.

   2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 48

   Synonyms: handi-wipe, moist towelette, wetnap

2. derogatoryslangAn annoying or contemptible person.

   Thames Water has become the latest object lesson in the predictable and predicted folly of privatised monopolies, aided by a regulator that’s an even bigger wet wipe than the fatbergs bunging up the sewers.

   2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian

   1 more example

   ‘Do you have to be such a wet wipe?’ Then she snorted. ‘Whatever. Who cares? Let’s be real – we don’t know each other, and we’re not going to get to know each other. I have literally no interest in you. We’re both playing for ourselves.[…]’

   2023, Kesia Lupo, Let’s Play Murder, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, →ISBN, page 23

   Synonyms: asswipe, assbag, assbreath, assbucket, asschunk, asscunt, assface, assfag