Soaken

[Dan Goncharoff]

How do you differentiate between "soaken wet" and "soaking wet" with an
elided 'g'?
On Mar 5, 2014 11:45 PM, "Benjamin Barrett" <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

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> Wiktionary gives "soaken" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soaken) as an
> obsolete adjective, yet it's very much alive here in Seattle. I heard it
> today. Until now, I had parsed it as "soaked" but realized today it is
> different. I think it's most common as a collocation: "soaken wet."
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> The last citation for "soaken" in the OED is 1898. It strikes me as
> colloquial or dialectical, though it's not labelled.
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> Benjamin Barrett
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